Industrialized ‘aesthetic’ can be seen off Texas coast
Characterizing the industrialization of Cape Cod and Nantucket Sound as an “aesthetic issue,” Martha Coakley reveals her blind support of the energy development lobby at the expense of one of our greatest natural assets.
Perhaps the national parks are simply “aesthetic assets” that Ms. Coakley would have no problem using as power plant locations. How about a hydropower dam in the Grand Canyon, or some wind turbines atop Mount Rushmore?
I suggest Ms. Coakley indulge herself with a field trip to Houston or New Orleans so she can see firsthand the impacts on the quality of life itself when offshore industrialization trumps “aesthetic issues.”
Jack L. Halliwell
Nantucket
Cape Cod Times
21 November 2009
Tags: Wind power, Wind energy
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