Lots of Hot Air: No Power
Enviros Battle Each Other Over Cape Wind Project
For anyone who wondered what happened with the wind turbine debate on Cape Cod you heard so much about a few years back, we can catch you up in one simple word: nothing. During the four years the argument has raged on between environmentalists and … well, environmentalists, not a single thing has been resolved. And instead of a progressive new alternative energy solution that would prove the merits of wind power, we have a progressively ugly battle between pretty much all of the prominent environmentalists in the country, giving credit to the unfortunate theories that the greenies can't get out of their own way, and that when it comes to your own backyard, sometimes the alternative solution is better for the other guy.
For those who don’t know about the battle, it was suggested by some forward thinker that 130 wind powered turbines six miles off the coast of Cape Cod could produce “a whopping 420 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply three-quarters of the average total power demand of Cape Cod and two islands off its shores, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket” Grist online reported.
The problem is that the wind farm would be placed 13 miles from some of the most prime shoreline in the country, where the rich and famous frolic and pay extra zeroes for homes. There’s also the issue of the migrating birds getting cut down by the turbine blades with the solution of blinking lights to warn them being even more of a hazard and eyesore than the blades themselves.
Now there are clear lines being drawn in the beach sand over who supports this project and who doesn’t. Robert F. Kennedy, one of the most outspoken and charismatic defenders of the earth is being harshly criticized by members of Greenpeace and other organizations for his position that the turbines will be a blight on the coast line and adversely affect the very ecosystem they’re designed to improve.
In an op-ed piece for The New York Times, Kennedy defended himself by stating:
“As an environmentalist, I support wind power, including wind power on the high seas. I am also involved in siting wind farms in appropriate landscapes, of which there are many. But I do believe that some places should be off limits to any sort of industrial development. I wouldn't build a wind farm in Yosemite National Park. Nor would I build one on Nantucket Sound, which is exactly what the company Energy Management is trying to do with its Cape Wind project.”
In response, prominent environmental advocates, including writer Bill McKibbon and Ross Gelbspan, circulated a letter that urged Kennedy to rethink his position, citing “a state of ecological emergency," and saying that “constructing windmills six miles from Cape Cod, where they will be visible as half-inch dots on the horizon, is the least that we can do."
When additional turbine supporters, including "Death of Environmentalism" authors Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus called on Kennedy to step down from his position at NRDC things started to get a little less fuzzy in the big warm embrace that is the eco-elite family. And when the authors criticized the entire Kennedy clan as "the privileged patricians of a generation for whom building mansions by the sea was indistinguishable from advocating for the preservation of national parks…” Kennedy called Shellenberger and Nordhaus's attacks "dishonest vitriol."
Meanwhile construction for the Cape Wind Project, as it is officially known, sat as idly as a, yes, turbine blade on a windless day. However, the permit process, which has taken almost six years, is near completion and, barring any sort of backroom political agreement, is set to begin in 2007.
To which we blithely say, too bad all this hot air couldn’t be harnessed for more useful purposes.
For anyone who wondered what happened with the wind turbine debate on Cape Cod you heard so much about a few years back, we can catch you up in one simple word: nothing. During the four years the argument has raged on between environmentalists and … well, environmentalists, not a single thing has been resolved. And instead of a progressive new alternative energy solution that would prove the merits of wind power, we have a progressively ugly battle between pretty much all of the prominent environmentalists in the country, giving credit to the unfortunate theories that the greenies can't get out of their own way, and that when it comes to your own backyard, sometimes the alternative solution is better for the other guy.For those who don’t know about the battle, it was suggested by some forward thinker that 130 wind powered turbines six miles off the coast of Cape Cod could produce “a whopping 420 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply three-quarters of the average total power demand of Cape Cod and two islands off its shores, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket” Grist online reported.
The problem is that the wind farm would be placed 13 miles from some of the most prime shoreline in the country, where the rich and famous frolic and pay extra zeroes for homes. There’s also the issue of the migrating birds getting cut down by the turbine blades with the solution of blinking lights to warn them being even more of a hazard and eyesore than the blades themselves.
Now there are clear lines being drawn in the beach sand over who supports this project and who doesn’t. Robert F. Kennedy, one of the most outspoken and charismatic defenders of the earth is being harshly criticized by members of Greenpeace and other organizations for his position that the turbines will be a blight on the coast line and adversely affect the very ecosystem they’re designed to improve.
In an op-ed piece for The New York Times, Kennedy defended himself by stating:
“As an environmentalist, I support wind power, including wind power on the high seas. I am also involved in siting wind farms in appropriate landscapes, of which there are many. But I do believe that some places should be off limits to any sort of industrial development. I wouldn't build a wind farm in Yosemite National Park. Nor would I build one on Nantucket Sound, which is exactly what the company Energy Management is trying to do with its Cape Wind project.”
In response, prominent environmental advocates, including writer Bill McKibbon and Ross Gelbspan, circulated a letter that urged Kennedy to rethink his position, citing “a state of ecological emergency," and saying that “constructing windmills six miles from Cape Cod, where they will be visible as half-inch dots on the horizon, is the least that we can do."
When additional turbine supporters, including "Death of Environmentalism" authors Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus called on Kennedy to step down from his position at NRDC things started to get a little less fuzzy in the big warm embrace that is the eco-elite family. And when the authors criticized the entire Kennedy clan as "the privileged patricians of a generation for whom building mansions by the sea was indistinguishable from advocating for the preservation of national parks…” Kennedy called Shellenberger and Nordhaus's attacks "dishonest vitriol."
Meanwhile construction for the Cape Wind Project, as it is officially known, sat as idly as a, yes, turbine blade on a windless day. However, the permit process, which has taken almost six years, is near completion and, barring any sort of backroom political agreement, is set to begin in 2007.
To which we blithely say, too bad all this hot air couldn’t be harnessed for more useful purposes.
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