Good enough for thee but not for me

The "progressive" hypocrisy just gets deeper all the time.

Here we have the Robert Kennedy's out in public preaching the Branch Gorevidian message to the public all the while his clan is doing all it can to kill the wind farm project off of Cape Cod.

The proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm cleared the most significant hurdle in its contentious 7½ year history yesterday, an accomplishment federal officials said could be a "bellwether" for the future of offshore wind farms.

"There is nothing in the (final environmental impact statement) to basically cause extreme alarms about the project," said Randall Luthi, outgoing director of the U.S. Minerals Management Service, which issued its final environmental report on the project. Luthi also announced during a press conference that the final rules for offshore alternative energy projects would not be finalized during the Bush administration.

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Opponents of Cape Wind, including U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., contended yesterday that the MMS report was rushed.

The MMS review of Cape Wind is under investigation by Interior's inspector general, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration continues to review the project, and the rules that would govern the project's construction and operation are incomplete, Kennedy said in a prepared statement. "By taking this action, the Interior Department has virtually assured years of continued public conflict and contentious litigation," he said.

In a statement posted on his Web site, U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., said the Bush administration's decision to issue the MMS report "literally hours before leaving office — prior to issuing any standards to guide the review of these projects — comes as no surprise."

"The administration has put the cart before the horse and adopted an unprecedented approach that provokes more controversy and litigation; all for a $2 billion project that depends on significant taxpayer subsidies while potentially doubling power costs for the region," Delahunt's statement read.

Remind me again of who the party of the rich is v. the environment party?

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