Ted Kennedy has lost a lot of popularity for opposing the wind farm.
The source of unhappiness is Kennedy's efforts to kill an offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind was to be the first such project in the United States and a source of pride to environmentally minded New Englanders. Polls show 84 percent of Massachusetts residents in favor. But now it appears that America's first offshore wind farm will be near Galveston, Texas.
Proposed the month before Sept. 11, 2001, Cape Wind remains in limbo. It's been frustrated at every turn by a handful of yachtsmen, Kennedy included, who don't want to see windmills from their verandas. Many millions have been spent spreading disinformation and smearing the wind farm's supporters.
The towers would be at least five miles out and barely visible from shore on the clearest day, but the summer plutocrats resent any intrusion on their waterfront vistas -- and, equally, any challenge to the notion that they control everything.
"But don't you realize -- that's where I sail!" may stand as Kennedy's most self-incriminating quote.
NIMBY is alive and well.
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Sorry to inform you, but most people against Cape Wind are not the rich and powerful, but I can see why you would want to try to polarize the issue in that way.
The polls you site were done by the Civil Society Institute - they surveyed 600 people in total, 60 lived on Cape Cod...if you know anything about statistics, those sample sizes are not statically significant. I could easily round up 600 people on Cape Cod who oppose this project...the data is skewed to fit the people who payed for the study.....CAPE WIND! What a surprise.
Look who just go scratched.
While Wikipedia is not an unimpeachable source, the entry on Cape Wind seems to portray this as pretty clearly a NIMBY issue.
Saying that the poll was not statistically significant does not seem to be correct. The only ones who oppose it are those who don't want it in their backyard. Clean energy? We don't want that here.
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