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Cape Wind menace to boating
Something awful happened in a conference room at a hotel in Falmouth on Dec. 18. The U.S. Coast Guard revealed itself to be totally politicized in its review of radar and safety issues arising from the plan of a Boston energy entrepreneur (Jim Gordon) to build a wind farm covering 25 square miles of Nantucket Sound.
January 15, 2009
by Peter Kenney
in Providence Journal
Something awful happened in a conference room at a hotel in Falmouth on Dec. 18. The U.S. Coast Guard revealed itself to be totally politicized in its review of radar and safety issues arising from the plan of a Boston energy entrepreneur (Jim Gordon) to build a wind farm covering 25 square miles of Nantucket Sound.
The Coast Guard's motto is Semper Paratus. Those two noble words mean "always prepared"; but many people in that hotel conference room were unprepared for what they heard and saw. We saw the venerable U.S. Coast Guard cowed into submission by hidden economic and political forces.... [continue via Web link]
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