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Boston Globe: Well, he ain’t getting any deader.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 31st, 2009 at 08:30 AM  | 

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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.

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  • mbecker908

    Massachusetts now Senior Senator, John F. Kerry as a place (OK, his wife does) on the Vineyard. And lets not forget that one Orrin Hatch is pushing for Teddy’s widow to take his Senate seat.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    And whoever gets Kennedy’s seat will NOT get Kennedy’s seniority, Kennedy’s favor bank, and/or Kennedy’s influence.

    I expect that this is going to end up being a bit of a shock for MA voters.

  • archer52

    I know, my grandfather is probably rolling over in his grave, but I just don’t like windmills. I think they are being driven, as are solar panels and electric cars, by the PC environmental crowd. Any time I see people who really don’t understand the science screaming we have to take on that same science because if we don’t the world will end, I get itchy.

    I mean, honestly, if we add up all the things that should have killed us off since the early seventies we should be dead a dozen times over. The sheer combined weight of all the threats should have accelerated our end, but here we are. Why? If all the leftie, do-gooder, hemp wearing and smoking greenies assure us the end is near, why isn’t it? ‘Cause maybe they are wrong?

    And if they are wrong about that, what else did their greenie brains screw up? Like the fact the big windmills wiped out thousands of birds? If I went out with my trusty double barrel and shot up what some windmills cut in half, I would be arrested. But no, they want to keep building. And I wonder just how efficient are they in generating consistent power vs. say.. nuclear?

    Or the fact people are beginning to suffer from the background noise, which sounds like a train that never arrives. (Hey, I’m married, I know all about a whining, endless background noise that never seems to go away! As a matter of fact, that train whizzed by me just this morning. Believe me brothers, those folks are suffering!)

    The greenies went crazy over the Alaskan pipeline, claiming it would wipe out the caribou. Nothing happened to the caribou. But birds are dropping out of the sky everyday.

    The last reason I’m not so sure about windmills is GE. I vote to cut off every dollar we can from that company. I don’t want to kill it off, just change its leadership and direction. That company is way too involved in manipulating our government.

    So, in this case, and in this case only, I’m with Ted. Besides, with him dead, where are they going to get all that hot air to run the darn things anyway?

  • Tbone

    You’re right, it didn’t take long.

  • 10ksnooker

    How seniority in the politburo actually works, don’t they.

    If the August recess has taught you anything, you probably realize how outright stupid your congressional clunker really is when you get up front and personal.

  • cclive

    commercial offshore wind farm. I say anything and everything to free us from foreign oil, thousands of dead birds are fine by me.

  • bk

    The Edward M Kennedy Memorial Windbag Farm?

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    Will the liberals take up the rallying cry to save the Kennedy clan’s view and put the windmills in someone else’s backyard? After all, it’s what uncle Ted would have wanted.

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