Big Wind looking for federal handout.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 5th at 10:30 AM  | 

The wind ‘industry’ is apparently looking for more federal aid – actually, no, there’s nothing apparent about it.  They want more federal aid, they want it permanently – and they want it specifically allocated to them, and not as part of a nebulous ‘alternate energy’ package.  Otherwise, they’re afraid that they’ll go out of business. For the record: if your business plan requires – not | Read More »

A fitting memorial for Sen. Ted Kennedy.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 28th at 05:30 PM  | 

One that I can think that we can all get behind: The first U.S. offshore wind farm, a giant project 5 miles/8 km off the Massachusetts coast, was approved on Wednesday after years of opposition involving everyone from local Indian tribes to the Kennedy family. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave the green light for the 130-turbine, 420-megawatt Cape Wind project in Horseshoe Shoal, Nantucket | Read More »

Doing well by being a Congressman’s brother?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 13th at 12:30 PM  | 

It’s amazing what they don’t mention in the news these days: Wind Capital Group, led by President Tom Carnahan, said Monday it has closed on financing for Missouri’s largest wind energy development. The lenders, led by Nord/LB, Bayern LB, Rabobank, Santander and Union Bank, are providing $240 million in debt facilities to support the construction and operation of the proposed Lost Creek Wind Project in | Read More »

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

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

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 | Read More »

Navajo tribe tells Kennedy to go to the Devil, or Nantucket.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 08:00 AM  | 

Well, they were more polite about it than the title suggests, but the sentiment is real: Joseph P. Kennedy II, whose father Robert F. Kennedy championed Native American rights, is at war with a band of Navajo Indians. The Cameron Chapter of Navajo Nation is charging that Kennedy, president of Citizens Energy Corp. and its for-profit business Citizens Wind, is trying to seize control of | Read More »