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... Never a better time for a profile in courage, Senator ...
After today's story in the Washington Times, "Kennedy tries to halt windmills," Senator Kennedy can no longer deny an active role in pushing the so-called Young amendment to kill the nation's first offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound.
The proposal by Rep. Don Young of Alaska, now being considered before a closed-door conference committee after it was never debated in either chamber of Congress, would ban offshore wind turbines within 1.5 nautical miles of shipping and ferry lanes.
"Given the potential dangers of siting one of these wind farms in a busy shipping area, (Mr. Kennedy) thinks it is worth the conferees' consideration," said Kennedy spokeswoman Melissa Wagoner in the Times story.
Anyone familiar with the workings of government will interpret "worth the conferees' consideration" for the code language it is intended to be - in other words, I strongly support this amendment. If Senator Kennedy urged "further study" of the amendment while not explicitly endorsing or supporting it, this would also be understood as code - I oppose this proposal.
Kennedy's stealth support for the Young amendment puts him at odds with a growing number of opponents to the measure - which include the Coast Guard, Senate colleagues John Kerry, Lincoln Chaffee, Jeff Bingaman and Senate Energy Chairman Pete Domenici, his nephew and prominent environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a broad coalition of labor unions, environmental organizations and renewable energy advocacy groups such as Clean Power Now.
"Senator Kennedy's opposition to Cape Wind is hardly a secret, yet he continues to try to avoid responsibility for his role in pushing this amendment," said Clean Power Now spokesman Jack Coleman. "As one of the most vocal supporters of renewable energy in the Senate, he wants this project derailed in such a way that his name is not attached to it."
"It's not too late for Senator Kennedy to show us a profile in courage," Coleman said, alluding to the Pultizer Prize-winning book written by his brother, then-Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy.
The Coast Guard made its opposition to the amendment clear in a story this week in Congressional Quarterly. "What we're trying to do is ask Congress to not tie our hands," said Ed LaRue, head of the Coast Guard's Navigation Standards Division. "Give us the opportunity to do what we do best and decide case by case what's appropriate."
Senator John Kerry, a longtime close ally of Kennedy's, has denounced Young's proposal in no uncertain terms, labeling it "an insult to Americans who care about good government."
If enacted, Young's proposal "would foreclose or severely limit the potential for development of appropriate offshore wind facilities in the United States," wrote prominent environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sen. Kennedy's nephew, in a letter to members of Congress.