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RFK Jr. Nixes Wind Farm Near Kennedy Compound

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Uber environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to put the kibosh on plans to build the kind of wind-farm he regularly touts as an environmentally sound alternative to fossil fuels, saying it would block views of Nantucket Sound from Cape Cod - which just happens to be home to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis port.

In an op-ed published Friday by the New York Times, the hyper-green Kennedy tried to explain the contradiction:

"As an environmentalist, I support wind power, including wind power on the high seas. I am also involved in siting wind farms in appropriate landscapes, of which there are many."

But Kennedy insisted: "I do believe that some places should be off limits to any sort of industrial development. I wouldn't build a wind farm in Yosemite National Park. Nor would I build one on Nantucket Sound, which is exactly what the company Energy Management is trying to do with its Cape Wind project."

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  Kennedy cautions that that wind farm project would mean the construction of "130 giant turbines whose windmill arms will reach 417 feet above the water and be visible for up to 26 miles."

The global warming crusader complains that the turbines will pollute the views from places like "Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket" - some of the Kennedy family's favorite haunts.

And that's not all. Kennedy gripes that if the wind farm plan goes through, "hundreds of flashing lights to warn airplanes away from the turbines will steal the stars and nighttime views."

And if that weren't bad enough, "the noise of the turbines will be audible onshore," he warns.

The Kennedy habitat horror doesn't end there: "A transformer substation rising 100 feet above the sound would house giant helicopter pads and 40,000 gallons of potentially hazardous oil," RFK Jr. grouses.

Kennedy's blatant hypocrisy has drawn the ire of even some of his erstwhile environmental allies.

"It's time for RFK Jr. to lead the Cape and islands towards a clean energy revolution," Greenpeace spokesman Chris Miller tells the Cape Cod Times. "It's about a vision for healthy oceans, not the view from the Kennedy compound."

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