So now’s a great time to bring up the Cape Wind wind farm project again (some background on the topic here). As near as I can tell, the Globe got this one in before the first spadeful of Virginia earth got put on former Senator Kennedy’s coffin:

The proposed offshore wind project has sustained more than seven years of heated debate; political maneuvering, including some by the late Senator Edward Kennedy, a project opponent; and environmental review. It now awaits a decision from the Department of the Interior — the last major regulatory hurdle its developers must clear for the project to move forward. As the country’s first proposed commercial offshore wind farm, and the only project of its kind this far along in the approval process, Cape Wind could open the door for developers to harness the vast wind energy resource along the nation’s eastern seaboard. The approval could make Massachusetts the trailblazer of a power source that is an essential part of the country’s strategy to address global warming and to achieve energy security.

(Via Newsbusters, via Instapundit*) That’s the thing about defending things until your dying breath: if you’re good enough at it, people eventually settle down to wait until you finally have one.

Moe Lane

*Glenn also has a great Greenpeace video ad from 2007 that should totally be reissued, if only because the image of Teddy Kennedy pushing inconvenient things back under the water to protect his privileged lifestyle is amazingly off the larger message.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

Promoted from diaries, with some maniacal laughter mixed in. - Moe Lane.

Yr humble correspondent recently provided a run-down on the Cape Wind Project, a private initiative to construct a 130-tower windfarm in Nantucket Sound.

As it happens, offshore Massachusetts has the combined advantages of being ideally suited to wind power, while being relatively close to population centers. It has the distinct disadvantage of also being relatively close to Nantucket Island, Martha’s Vineyard, and a small but politically-influential compound at Hyannis Port. He-he-he.

One of the last official acts of George W. Bush as President was to give the project the go-ahead; the final Environmental Impact Statement was published last week; it rated the project’s environmental impact as “negligible”, apart from a “moderate” impact on the scenery.

Ted Kennedy sunbathing, the EIS notes, has an “ungodly” impact on the scenery. Just kidding.

Now it’s up to President Obama to either advance his green agenda or piss off New England’s rich & powerful. Without his interference, construction on the project could begin within a year.

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