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Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« on: April 28, 2010, 12:06:21 PM »
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Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm

Updated April 28, 2010

By Cristina Corbin
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday approved the construction of a controversial wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod that puts the Obama administration at odds with one of the president's biggest supporters:  the Kennedy family.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday approved the construction of a controversial wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod that puts the Obama administration at odds with one of the president's biggest supporters:  the Kennedy family.

Salazar's decision will affect thousands of residents, local businesses and tourists who flock to the seashore paradise each summer--and sets the course for the building of other such offshore wind farms in states from New York to Michigan.

The Cape Wind project, which will be the first in the nation, had created a bipartisan jumble that pit environmentalists and lawmakers against each other on both sides of the dispute over the 130 planned turbines -- whose windmill arms would extend over 400 feet above the water.

Salazar said the decision marks a "new direction in our nation's energy future," claiming the wind farm will be "one of the largest greenhouse gas reduction initiatives in the nation," cutting carbon dioxide emissions from conventional power plants by 700,000 tons annually.

The offshore wind farm, to be built five miles off the Massachusetts coast, has been blasted by critics like the Kennedys as an "economic boondoggle" that will cost taxpayers billions, hurt commercial fishing and pose a danger to wildlife along a pristine stretch of the Nantucket Sound.



I love it. :-) :-) :-)

The rest of the article is here:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/28/interior-department-poised-annouce-decision-controversial-offshore-wind-farm/
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2010, 12:14:58 PM »
Heh.

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Salazar said the decision marks a "new direction in our nation's energy future," claiming the wind farm will be "one of the largest greenhouse gas reduction initiatives in the nation," cutting carbon dioxide emissions from conventional power plants by 700,000 tons annually.


For once I'd like one of these Glowballs Warming pundits to show precisely how this will happen? How many "conventional" plants will they shutdown?









*we all know it's bullshit*   :fuelfire:


BTW just wait till the farm starts killing sea birds.     :evillaugh:
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2010, 12:18:49 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on April 28, 2010, 12:14:58 PM
Heh.


For once I'd like one of these Glowballs Warming pundits to show precisely how this will happen? How many "conventional" plants will they shutdown?









*we all know it's bullshit*   :fuelfire:


BTW just wait till the farm starts killing sea birds.     :evillaugh:

Ya know, I don't care.  I am just THRILLED that all of the Cape Cod/Martha's Vineyard/Nantucket peeps will be subject to that view.  Little schmucks.  Endorse alternate power, but don't mess up my view!

Awesome!
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2010, 12:28:07 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on April 28, 2010, 12:18:49 PM
Ya know, I don't care.  I am just THRILLED that all of the Cape Cod/Martha's Vineyard/Nantucket peeps will be subject to that view.  Little schmucks.  Endorse alternate power, but don't mess up my view!

Awesome!


Oh they dont mind the wind farms in the back yards of the lower/middle class. I only hope they get REALLY pissed everytime they see them  :-)
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2010, 01:18:14 PM »
These jerks in MA need to make a greater contribution to the energy crisis. Offshore drilling would be more productive than windmills. However, it makes my day that the Env. weenies are getting their bowels in an uproar. 
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2010, 01:30:21 PM »
We in upstate NY are subjected to these montrous eyesores all the time, everywhere.  Now they're trying to stick them in Lake Ontario.  Every day the local paper and radio news are filled with "wind" stories.  Who's battling who over what.  I'm sick of it.  Let the Massholes deal with it, too. 
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2010, 01:47:30 PM »
Quote from: Karin on April 28, 2010, 01:30:21 PM
We in upstate NY are subjected to these montrous eyesores all the time, everywhere.  Now they're trying to stick them in Lake Ontario.  Every day the local paper and radio news are filled with "wind" stories.  Who's battling who over what.  I'm sick of it.  Let the Massholes deal with it, too. 

I've been to a couple of those windfarms.  There's one or two south of Utica, and one or two southeast of Buffalo, too.  I don't value the generation stuff anymore--just the substations that the electricity goes through.
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2010, 04:31:18 PM »
Wonder how long it will take a good nor'easter to take them out? Or a nice shiney oil tanker or coal freighter to run 'em down in the fog?
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2010, 05:03:36 PM »
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2010, 05:32:55 PM »
Much as I'd like to join the fry and say piss on the Kennedy's; the possible impact from this disaster to the Cape - my wife and I, plus both little RC's were all born in Cape Cod Hospital - is really troubling. Cape wind says the visual/ noise impact will be minimal, yet the opponents of the project claim the those impacts will be significant. Time will tell, although I'm sure there will continue to be legal challenges.

And, all things being equal, I am dismayed be any "greenie" win.
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2010, 06:59:07 PM »
But...but...but...that's where we go SAILING!!!!

--Ted Kennedy.

Suck it, bitches.  Oh, BTW--it'll fail too, just like every other wind project that has been built.  Just ask the folks up in Maine, or the utilities who can't turn a profit despite BILLIONS in subsidies from the feds and states.
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2010, 07:21:55 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on April 28, 2010, 06:59:07 PM
But...but...but...that's where we go SAILING!!!!

--Ted Kennedy.

Suck it, bitches.  Oh, BTW--it'll fail too, just like every other wind project that has been built.  Just ask the folks up in Maine, or the utilities who can't turn a profit despite BILLIONS in subsidies from the feds and states.

I am reminded of the The Colossus of Rhodes. In a few years the jilted, tilted windmills can be forged into a fitting tribute to the former Lyin of the Senate himself. 

(I love it when I read about those stories of liberals wasting their trust funds on windmills and being all "Gee, it didn't generate enough power to run the Cappuccino Machine" Sob.)

In a Vesta type aside, I was just wondered if the eviscerated sea birds would act as chum?   :fuelfire:
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2010, 08:43:16 PM »
Quote from: RightCoast on April 28, 2010, 05:32:55 PM
Much as I'd like to join the fry and say piss on the Kennedy's; the possible impact from this disaster to the Cape - my wife and I, plus both little RC's were all born in Cape Cod Hospital - is really troubling. Cape wind says the visual/ noise impact will be minimal, yet the opponents of the project claim the those impacts will be significant. Time will tell, although I'm sure there will continue to be legal challenges.

And, all things being equal, I am dismayed be any "greenie" win.


I hear what you are saying, we have a similar issue with the visual/noise stuff going on in West Texas.  I am suffering from a bit of "What's good for the goose is good for the gander" at the moment.  Sometimes, I cannot hep mahself. 
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2010, 07:15:47 AM »
Yes, aside from the goose/gander thing, RightCoast has a good point.  Lake Ontario and Thousand Islands are our only tourist attractions.  This "greenie" win is terrible for the environment.  Oh the irony. 

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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2010, 08:27:51 AM »
Unfortunately the only way to bring home to the public the error of the ways of Greenies and other assorted freaks is to let the freaks have their way until it leads to more-or-less retrievable disaster.  It sucks to be collateral damage, of course.
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2010, 08:30:11 AM »
If the dumb ass's in DC had pumped all that greenie energy money (Ethanol, wind and solar)  into natural gas, we would be well on our way to weaning ourselves off of M.E. oil.  
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« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2010, 06:07:29 PM »
Quote from: Karin on April 29, 2010, 07:15:47 AM
Yes, aside from the goose/gander thing, RightCoast has a good point.  Lake Ontario and Thousand Islands are our only tourist attractions.  This "greenie" win is terrible for the environment.  Oh the irony. 

How cool is that when one of your quotes becomes somebody's sig line?   :-)

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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #17 on: April 29, 2010, 09:54:21 PM »
Quote from: RightCoast on April 29, 2010, 06:07:29 PM
Its cool. And that troll was a fruitcake.

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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #18 on: April 30, 2010, 12:05:26 AM »
I wish I could be a fly on the wall when some of them heard the news
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #19 on: April 30, 2010, 04:16:36 PM »
Obama couldn't grant a dying man's last wish... :lmao:

Rush said Ted Kennedy wrote a letter to Obama a month before his death about this windfarm, begging to not let it happen.

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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #20 on: April 30, 2010, 06:54:39 PM »
These will never pay for themselves, they will interfere with the migratory waterfowl, killing thousands, plus kill seagulls etc etc. Will make a GREAT fishing spot, after a few years, sea 'scallops will be plentiful, lobster will have new spots to live, and carrion (those dead birds) to eat. But the idea that the energy will be cheap and plentiful....well, certainly not cheap, and on days when there is a calm......no electricity. Ask any sail mariner  about becoming becalmned.  And from time to time....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nSB1SdVHqQ

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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #21 on: May 03, 2010, 04:50:47 PM »
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/03/1919532/feds-ok-offshore-wind-farm-near.html

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After nine years of wrangling and disagreement about whether to build a wind farm offshore near Cape Cod, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has just announced approval for the project - 130 turbines in Nantucket Sound.

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According to the Associated Press, Cape Wind says it can generate power by 2012 and aims to eventually supply three-quarters of the power on Cape Cod, which has about 225,000 residents. Critics say the project endangers wildlife and air and sea traffic, while marring historic vistas. The late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy fought Cape Wind, calling it a special interest giveaway. The wind farm would be visible from the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport.

Liberal elitists like Dead Ted love wind farms, but not in their proverbial backyards.
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« Reply #22 on: May 03, 2010, 05:01:42 PM »
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
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Re: Interior Department Approves Construction of Controversial Offshore Wind Farm
« Reply #24 on: May 03, 2010, 06:52:11 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on May 03, 2010, 04:50:47 PM
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/03/1919532/feds-ok-offshore-wind-farm-near.html

Liberal elitists like Dead Ted love wind farms, but not in their proverbial backyards.

"But that's where we go sailing!!!"  --Ted Kennedy

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