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Posted on Apr 28, 2010
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You’ve heard of offshore oil drilling, how about offshore wind farming? The first offshore wind project has been approved to be built five miles off the Massachusetts coast over the objections of Cape Cod residents and vacationers who worry it might disturb their view. The $1 billion project could power 400,000 houses.

Ted Kennedy fought the project as did two Indian tribes and others who worried about the sight of 24 square miles of 400-foot-high turbines, but environmental groups from Greenpeace to the Natural Resources Defense Council were pleased to hear it is going forward.  —PZS

Reuters:

“Greenpeace has been campaigning to get the Cape Wind project built for nearly a decade, and today’s victory is worth celebrating. It long overdue,” said Kert Davies, research director at the environmental group.

Cape Wind was subject to years of environmental review and political maneuvering, including adamant opposition from the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, whose six-acre (2.4 hectare) family compound in Hyannis Port overlooks Nantucket Sound.

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By MarthaA, May 1, 2010 at 7:18 pm Link to this comment

Last I read was 1,000 barrels of oil was spewing into the ocean.  Earlier it was 42,000 gallons of crude oil spewing into the ocean. It may be more.  With this much oil going into the water it will not take long before all life is dead, and this is a conservative estimate, and fire will smother life in the water as well.  I really wish the Obama administration had never listened to the Right-Wing’s oil barons, but now, I hope they will not continue to listen. 

Nuclear energy is not nearly as destructive because all the waste can be disposed of on the moon or sent to Mars.

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By samosamo, May 1, 2010 at 9:53 am Link to this comment

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Blackspeare, would it add more sense to the ‘american’ version of
bp oil extraction when it is considered that the government of the
U.S. is probably the most, or at least one of the most corrupt, as
far as the corporate to government liaisons are concerned and
vice versa.

Also include the fact that bp IS the oil company that persuaded
eisenhower to use the cia to over throw Iran’s leader, Mosaddegh,
so bp could gain control of their oil. Working in true accord as
any corrupted organization would, nothing could ever be
construed as good from such a criminal business as bp. Profits
above all else, be it the people, the environment or ANYTHING

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By Blackspeare, May 1, 2010 at 7:52 am Link to this comment

Wind farms are OK, but how are they going to help gas my cars?!  The incident in the gulf is a lack of common sense regulation.  In Europe sea rigs are required to have two fail-safe devices to prevent oil spills.  BP a foreign company and certainly employs these devices in it’s European operations, but in the US it was only required to use one——the one least costly——that figures.  And so we have another disaster in the works.  But, as they say every cloud has a silver lining and for the gulf fishing industry a windfall is in the making as this incident will allow them to raise wholesale prices until it stings.

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By samosamo, April 29, 2010 at 9:08 am Link to this comment

What is with bob scheer and zuade kaufman and the rest of TD’s
crew? Here we have a quaint little post on wind farms in the
oceans and NOT ONE word on the growing biggest
environmental disaster unfolding the the Gulf of Mexico. Adds a
little, no a lot of incredulousness to what TD is doing.

MY COMMENT ON THAT STORY IS: No one, by themselves,
especially the ‘chief’ executive, should be in charge of allowing
something so tenuous as offshore drilling to be allowed!!!!!!!!!

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By MarthaA, April 28, 2010 at 3:13 pm Link to this comment

There is no way wind farms can be worse than the oil spills.  It is a wonderful idea.

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