"Group fighting Cape Wind names new leader
By Patrick Cassidy
Staff writer
September 01, 2007 6:00 AM
HYANNIS — An energy industry expert has been tapped to become the new chief executive officer for the well-heeled and vocal anti-Cape Wind group, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.
Glenn Wattley has previously served as an energy consultant for the nonprofit group.
A coal industry insider, Wattley has been a frequent commentator on energy issues and utilities in the national media. He has commented publicly on the Cape Wind project on several occasions.
Wattley will take over the group's CEO job from Charles Vinick on Tuesday, according to a statement released yesterday by the Alliance. The nonprofit was formed in 2001 to fight Cape Wind Associate's proposed siting of 130 wind turbine's on Horseshoe Shoals in Nantucket Sound.
Vinick will remain the group's president and is expected to focus on a review of the project under way at the U.S. Department of Interior Minerals Management Service, the federal agency responsible for permitting the project, according to the statement.
The Minerals Management Service is scheduled to release a draft environmental impact statement on the project before the end of the summer.
The Cape Cod Commission, the regional planning agency for Barnstable County, will begin public hearings on the Cape Wind project at 5 p.m. Thursday at Mattacheese Middl
e School, Higgins Crowell Road, West Yarmouth.Wattley is the managing director of West Bay Energy LLC, according to the statement from the Alliance."
Another source:
"Ted K seen as environmental windbag"
Date: Tuesday, April 11 @ 11:44:52
Topic: Cape Wind in the News
Environmentalists ripped into U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, usually a staunch ally, after the Massachusetts Democrat acknowledged yesterday he encouraged a Senate colleague to file a measure to kill a windmill project off of Cape Cod.One critic said Kennedy - whose family’s famous Hyannis compound is just miles away from the proposed offshore Cape Wind project - has seriously harmed his reputation among environmentalists.Read the full story in the Boston Herald
So, we have the illustrious trio of tree hugging greenies, Ted Kennedy, RFK Jr, and the most trusted man in America, Walter Cronkite, joining hands in protest and singing Kumbaya with Big Coals' man Glenn Wattley. We need to cut back on our use of fossil fuels while they drive limos and fly private jets, we need to become independent of foreign oil while they use every arrow in their quiver to destroy a plan for wind generated energy, because although it is miles away, they would be able to see the windmills from their mansions on Nantucket Island. You remember Nantucket, that's where Teddie learned to swim, but forgot the "buddie" system.
The latest ploy....? Kennedy is trying to amend the latest Coast Guard bill with a provision to give the State of Massachusetts "kill" authority over the Cape Wind plan. Gee, I wonder if he has any clout in that state to affect the outcome?
2 comments:
As a native Cape Codder (yes there are those of us who did not just arrive, my family has been here since 1630)I am completely against the industrialization of Nantucket Sound. I am for wind power and all other forms of alternative power as well but don't ruin an area as beautiful as Cape Cod. We have a number of wind mills on the Cape, most noteably the one that saves us tax payers thousands of dollars creating power for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Keep saving us money by having more land based wind mills that service towns and other municipalities, not projects just to make one developer rich. Wind power YES... Cape Wind NO, NO, NO!
Dear Anonymous,
Unless you are a descendent of Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoags or Chief Canonicus of the Naragonsetts, I suspect the same could be said of your "white-eyed" ancestors that came in and ruined their view and screwed up the neighborhood.
Everything in perspective
Respectfully, (and in good humor)
Pecozbill
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