NIKBY: Not In (A) Kennedy's Backyard?

"As with energy projects everywhere, the Cape Wind proposal has spawned fierce, not-in-my-backyard opposition. In this case, the NIMBY forces are led by some of the wealthiest and most influential people in the United States, who have summer homes on the cape and islands, including the Kennedy clan.

With the help of some strange political bedfellows, Edward Kennedy, the senior senator from Massachusetts, has managed to force the issue onto the floor of Congress through an amendment to a Coast Guard appropriations bill that would scuttle the Cape Wind project.

Environmentalists are furious, saying that, for the sake of a nice view, Senator Kennedy is opposing a clean, domestic source of power that would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. In contrast, President George W. Bush's administration has come out in support of Cape Wind, saying it is the kind of project needed to wean the country off foreign oil."