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Concessions to Kennedys in Wind Farm Approval |
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After 46 years in the U.S. Senate, the late Edward M. Kennedy now
appears to be influencing government decisions from the grave. Yesterday
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced approval of the Cape
Wind renewable energy project on federal submerged lands in Nantucket
Sound off the coast of Massachusetts. But the approval came with several
concessions made to the concerns of the late Hyannis Port resident, who
had sailed in the sound for decades. Kennedy and members of his family
had been the most prominent influential coastal residents fighting the
project.
"In a nod to the concerns of the Kennedys — and presumably other property owners in the area," the New York Times reported today, "Mr. Salazar said he had ordered Cape Wind to limit the number of turbines to 130 instead of the initial 170, to move the farm farther away from Nantucket and to reduce its breadth to make it less visible from the Nantucket Historic District." The statement released by the Interior Department said special care was taken to reduce the visual impact from "the Kennedy Compound Historic District." The turbines will be painted off-white to reduce their contrast with the sea and sky, while still remaining visible to birds, and their lights be turned off during the day and dimmed more at night than originally planned, Salazar said. Read the complete story at New American.
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Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright. Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda
