The Kennedy's Get Their Way...Again

Ambitious plans were drawn up to build a large wind farm off the coast of Nantucket in Massachussetts.

You probably thought that it would get good support from politicians in the famously liberal state, I mean, wind power is a good thing for the environment and decreases the need for fossil fuels.

Well, you'd be wrong:

Jim Gordon, president of Cape Wind Associates, the private company that proposed the wind farm, said the language that would kill it was inserted into the measure, without hearings or other public discussion, in an "egregious abuse" of the legislative process.

"By arbitrarily legislating a new barrier on a single project, solely because of local opposition, this provision will impede the development of offshore renewable energy throughout the country," Mr. Gordon said in a statement.

But Charles Vinick, president of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, an organization formed to fight the project, said that the part of the sound chosen for the installation was unique in that it is federal water surrounded by state waters.

The language inserted in the bill may look "political," Mr. Vinick said, but "people were paying attention to the fact that Nantucket Sound has some unique features."

Yeah, the most unique feature is that it is near the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport (a fact the inquiring reporter failed to note) and has been vilified from the beginning by green advocate Robert Kennedy, Jr.