07-13-2008, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by ⌐ AV8OR WANNABE
Quote from The Wind and the Willful - RFK Jr. and other prominent enviros face off over Cape Cod wind farm:
The four-year-old battle started heating up last summer when Greenpeace USA staged a demonstration against well-known eco-activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's been an outspoken opponent of the proposal for a 130-turbine wind-power project in Horseshoe Shoal, a shallow portion of Nantucket Sound south of Cape Cod. Kennedy -- a senior attorney at Natural Resources Defense Council and a pioneer in the waterway-protection movement -- was on a sailboat for an event with the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, which opposes the wind project. A Greenpeace vessel cruised up alongside with a banner that read, "Bobby, you're on the wrong boat" -- a stunt that was part of a larger Greenpeace campaign pressuring Kennedy to change his mind on the development. (Hear audio from the Greenpeace/Kennedy confrontation.)
In mid-December, Kennedy, wanting to explain his position to critics and the public at large, published an impassioned op-ed in The New York Times in which he argued that the wind farm would mar a precious seascape, privatize a publicly owned commons, and damage the local economy.
(Full article: http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2006/01/12/capecod)
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I knew Teddy was against it, but I had always thought RFK Jr. was a hardcore environmentalist. That kind of ruins his credability when it comes to that.
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Originally Posted by ⌐ AV8OR WANNABE
How about we settle this by keeping Turkey out of the EU but build thousands of wind power turbines in Turkey!? Deal?
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Ha, deal. |
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