Tom Keane, a Boston Globe columnist, wrote an opinion piece in the Globe’s Sunday magazine telling Cape Wind’s opponents “enough already.”  Mr Keane admonishes the Cape Wind opponents for fighting against the offshore wind farm for almost a decade based on their so-called concerns birds, fish, Indian tribes and the environment. According Keane, the reason the opponents have been so tenacious is —and always has been — the views from their houses.

Mr. Keane writes:

Let’s admit it. It’s never really been about the birds and the fish, has it? Neither has it been about air-traffic patterns, sacred Wampanoag burial grounds, or oil in the turbines’ transformers. Exploitation of a precious natural resource? Save us the big tears. Most of you have been doing that for years, fishing and boating in the water and building outsize eyesores perched far too close to the water’s edge. . . . So what’s it really been about? The views. If they happen to be your views (in other words, if you’re one of the lucky folks situated on the beach looking out on the sound), they’re invaluable. If they’re not your views (which is to say, pretty much everyone else), then they have little, if any, value.

“Enough already.” Read the full opinion piece here.

Further reading:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/05/23/memo_to_cape_wind_foes_enough_already/

http://greenlegals.com/2010/04/cape-wind-is-approved-as-first-us-wind-farm/

http://greenlegals.com/2010/04/another-win-cape-wind-prevails-in-state-lawsuit/
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KJC