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Pentagon Joins Kennedy's Wind Farm Fight
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., has a new ally in his effort to torpedo an environmentally friendly "wind farm” off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis – the Pentagon. The Defense Department has begun a study to find out if wind turbine projects designed to produce energy could interfere with military radar – even though wind farms are already operating in military radar areas. The study is threatening not only the Cape Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts, but other wind farm projects around the country as well. The study was inserted in the 2006 Defense Authorization Act by senators who want to block Cape Wind, according to wind farm developers cited by the Washington Post.
Story Continues Below "This legislation was intended to derail Cape Wind, but it has a boomerang effect and affected a lot of projects around the country,” Michael Skelly of Horizon Wind Energy, which is building the nation’s largest wind farm near Bloomington, Ill., told the Post. Wind turbine facilities in the works in Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota and Illinois have received word from the federal government that the projects must be put on hold while the study is ongoing. Six Midwestern senators have signed a letter sent to the Defense Department pointing out that a number of wind farms are already operating in the radar line of sight of military and Homeland Security installations "without any problems that we are aware of,” according to the Post. The Cape Wind project Kennedy is fighting would erect 130 wind turbines and could provide three-fourths of the power needed by Cape Cod and nearby islands, which is now largely supplied by coal-fired plants. In his book Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy,” author Peter Schweizer disclosed that Kennedy opposed the Cape Wind project because "the wind turbines would be built in Nantucket Sound, about six miles off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis.
"The problem was not aesthetic; the Kennedys wouldn’t be able to actually see the turbines from their home. Instead Robert Kennedy Jr., who had been beating the drum for alternative sources of energy for more than a decade, complained that the project would be built in one of the family’s favorite sailing and yachting areas.”
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