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Last Friday, I watched Kerncrest and Los Angeles Audubon go down in defeat to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which plans to go ahead the Pine Tree Wind Project in the Mojave desert despite Audubon's claims that migrating songbirds will be imperiled by the turbines.
Too bad Audubon doesn't have on its side powerful Democrats in cahoots with Big Oil, or an enviromentalist lawyer like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the way the opponents of Cape Wind Associates do. The Nantucket Sound Cape Wind project, to be sited miles offshore, would provide three-quarters of the Cape's electricity; objections to it come from the fishing and tourism industries, but the main problem is aesthetic: Locals just don't like the look of wind turbines (personally, I think they're cool. Put them on the hill up here in Hollywood any time).
However you stand on viewsheds vs. wind, you can object to the shoddy, back-door methods opponents in government are using against Cape Wind. Two weeks ago, a clandestine congressional committee sent forth an amendment to the Coast Guard Reauthorization Act that would allow Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to veto the project. Sen. Ted Kennedy has admitted to encouraging fellow Senators to pass this amendment to the act, which Congress plans to vote on April 24. Says Greenpeace:
"Congress likes to talk about cleaning up their act in the wake of the Abramoff scandal, but if you look behind the closed-door attack on America’s first offshore wind farm, it’s business as usual."
You can express your opposition by sending a fax from here:
If you're in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Providence, Las Vegas or New York, you can also participate in an emergency rally to save Cape Wind tomorrow (Thursday) at 5 p.m.
Click here for more information.
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