Cape Wind

Posted on June 18, 2007 by billmanzi

Even though my book reading time is extremely limited I have purchased “Cape Wind’ by Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb. The book details the political struggle over the placement of a wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The blurbs I have read tend to place our senior Senator Ted Kennedy in a bad light, as well as the other rich and famous inhabitants. I will write more after the read, but this controversy is to good to pass up. Is this just a case of the rich and spoiled looking to protect the aesthetics of the Cape while sacrificing the environment? The book should be a great read for the political junkie in all of us. Any thoughts on Cape Wind? I figure the Republican contributors should have a ball with this one.

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4 Responses to Cape Wind

  1. Jules Gordon says:
    June 20, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    Your Honor,

    As an engineer and conservative, I have come to recognize the differences between an issue and the politics of that issue.

    Examples are, environment (a science) and the “politics” of the environment. The politics being defined as the drive to enhance power and position using the issue as a base of reference.

    Have a good day.

    Education and the politics of education. You need no definition here as you live it (and maybe participate)

    The subject matter here is to generate renewable, pollution free, energy at low cost. Our democratic senators have driven the alternative energy, pollution free, cause in their political speeches. But, one of them at least, has objected to windmill implementation for personal and aesthetic reasons.

    It could be technically or economically unfeasible on its own, I have no idea.

    I do not know what the book says, although I assume it has a point of view, but the quick, unreflective response from our senator smacks of hypocrisy. The “personal” politics of energy and his supporters will not criticize him for it.

    To further the discussion the congress has passed a law preventing oil or gas exploration off the shores of Virginia, removing those valuable resources from our inventory.

    These issue politics will be bipartisan, and we will bleed for it.

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  2. Bill Manzi says:
    June 21, 2007 at 4:02 am

    Jules,
    Energy is truly one of the great political issues of the day because so much of who we are as a country is impacted by the subject. (Global warming, the use of coal, coal to liquid, Drilling in ANWAR, drilling off the coast of Virginia, the use of Nuclear, etc…..). I do believe that a rational, well thought out policy requires more than sloganeering (we are all for “energy independence”, but how do we get there?). The book details the political attacks launched by the rich and powerful to stop this wind farm from being placed, and as such promises some great political gossip. I will let you know after the read how good it really is. I think a post on going nuclear is in this blogs future.

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  3. Jules Gordon says:
    June 22, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    Your Honor,
    I believe our (yes he’s your president too) has crossed that line and visited a new Atomic power station (I did not know they were building any more)

    He has announced that Atomic power is in the mix.

    Do we have an escape route planned?

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  4. Bill Manzi says:
    June 22, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    Jules,
    The President visited the Brown’s Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama, which is not new but refurbished and then re-started. He used the occasion to call for an expansion of nuclear power by regulatory streamlining. There is a serious issue of what to do with spent nuclear fuel, but I do believe that nuclear power is in our future.

    “We want to start building plants, and we recognize that there have been some regulatory burdens that … discourage the construction of new plants,” Bush said.

    Read it at http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070622/bush.shtml

    And yes we do have an evacuation plan!

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