Smelling a Rat

This one really stinks:

In a new setback for a controversial wind farm proposed off Cape Cod, the National Park Service announced Monday that Nantucket Sound was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, guaranteeing further delays for the project.

Known as Cape Wind, the project is the nation’s first planned offshore wind farm and would cover 24 square miles in the sound, an area roughly the size of Manhattan. The park service decision came in response to a request from two Massachusetts Indian tribes, who said the 130 proposed wind turbines would thwart their spiritual ritual of greeting the sunrise, which requires unobstructed views across the sound, and disturb ancestral burial grounds.

The tribes — the Mashpee Wampanoag of Cape Cod and the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Martha’s Vineyard — sought the listing last fall, shortly before a final federal decision on the project was expected.

Yeah and anyone care to suppose that the lawyers for the two tribes were not paid for by all of the rich folk in Hyannis who have been opposing the wind farm? And while you argue that point, I suppose you'll next argue that unicorns really exist and that George W. Bush wasn't the most retarded president in American history.

I call bullshit on this one. Arguing "well, our ancestors could have buried there dead out there ten thousand years ago" is an argument that could be used to stop any project anywhere. The next time some rich fucker wants to build a mansion on Cape Cod, why not argue that some wandering Indian might have buried his uncle there in 7,500 BC?

If we are going to have energy sources other than fossil fuels, then the wind farms and solar plants and all of those projects have to go somewhere. You can bet your ass that a lot of the people who are against the Cape Wind project also are in favor of alternative energy. But it seems that the old rule still applies: They'll go where the wealthy don't have to look at them.