Lawmakers reach compromise on Cape Cod wind farm

WASHINGTON --Key lawmakers have agreed to drop Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's veto power over the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm, adopting a compromise that could boost the project's prospects.

The proposed gubernatorial veto was widely seen as a crippling blow to the wind farm, which Romney opposes. Some members of Congress had complained the veto was a backdoor political ploy targeting the proposal by Cape Wind Associates.
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., a leading project opponent, helped forge the compromise along with several other House and Senate members.

Kennedy cast the measure as a boost for those with public safety concerns about the proposed grid of 130 turbines off Cape Cod.

"It's a significant victory in our effort to deal with the legitimate safety concerns of the project, and I'm grateful to my colleagues for working with us to achieve this result," Kennedy said Wednesday in a statement.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/06/21/lawmakers_reach_compromise_on_cape_cod_wind_farm/

Kennedy, so as not to run short of wind.

Geeze, ya think he is against it because it spoils his billion-dollar view?

Kennedy's wind is well used in opposing the Iraq war. ;)

(Not in my back yard.)

I respect Kennedy for his stands on social justice, but on this point he is an elitist. It seems to be a common problem with the "haves mores"....

yet the entire baisis for the NIMBY complaint is the visual imposition. If i
did a probability analysis of the background colour from particular viewpoints
where the turbines would be set, i could paint a turbine with 1m wide pixels of
various greys, whites and blues that they would be very easy on the eyes, and
1/10th the visual imposition of the grey/white monsters.

Really, given the state of the art of camoflauge, and that these turbines have a fixed
background, the failure to disguise them is just stupid.