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Friday, April 14, 2006
Wind Bag
This really torks me off:
Sen. Ted Kennedy and other rich land owners on Cape Cod continue their attacks on a proposed wind turbine power plant on Nantucket Sound. Aides to Sen. Ted Stevens (R., Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, say Kennedy suggested an amendment, now tucked in the Coast Guard’s annual authorization bill, that gives Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican foe of the project, a veto even though it would be located on a federally owned part of the Sound. Two Democrats on the panel, Senators Maria Cantwell and Frank R. Lautenberg, objected. A third Democrat, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, has issued a statement complaining that the move makes a “mockery” of efforts by Congress to increase clean domestic energy supplies.

Both the House and the Senate may debate the issue, which is contained in a House-Senate conference report. It is scheduled for a vote in both Houses after they return on April 24. An aide to Kennedy said he wants a federal study on the placement of all off-shore wind projects before any are approved. Cape Wind, if it is built, would be the largest renewable energy project in the U.S., east of the Mississippi.
If true, and if there's not more to the story (this is a Wall Street Journal piece), Kennedy should be hung by his fingernails.
Written at 11:27 AM by Greyhair.
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1 Comments:
Blogger Lynne said...
The Right and Left Wing of the American Business Party...

I got a solicitation from Kennedy the other day. On the form I wrote, "Since Senator Kennedy can't even stand with Senator Feingold on a simple censure resolution, Fuck You."

I meant that from the bottom of my heart.
11:56 AM  
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