Location, Location, Location
Cape Cod has been around for 3000 years. As we know it, it has a history of about 300 years. The Nantucket Sound wind farm will occupy a window of a mere 30 years on that timeline. Not very much against the backdrop of all of time. But quite significant if it happens to be the same 30 years that you, who are here now, plan to occupy it. That’s what all the fuss is about.
Yes, it's still about the view. And the most visually impacted real estate locations are not open to the public. In fact they are the gated-communities of Great Island and Oyster Harbors. For that matter, so is the Kennedy Compound. The views from these vantage points are not public. They're private.
The folks who live in those gated communities paid for the right to have their views. They are therefore proprietary. Bought and paid for, like the beach in front of their homes.
We can’t walk out to and stand on Point Gammon to enjoy the view, can we? Therefore all us have-nots are really arguing about is the view from the very limited locations of our public beaches.
What we should be arguing for instead, is to change the only-state-in the-nation law (Maine notwithstanding, the priviledge was granted when we were still one state), that allows for private ownership of public shoreline. Then we would really have the right to complain about the view.
It's OK for the Chases, the Mellons, and the Kennedys to own the sound. But not the Gordons? Where's Billy Bulger when you need him?
Note: State Senator William Bulger (D-South Boston) proposed legislation 20 years ago to change private ownership of tidal lands (the shoreline) from the low tide to the high tide marks, thereby allowing the public access to the tidal flats. The haves objected, of course. You know the rest of the story.
posted by CapePolitics @ 10:59 AM
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Proponents should consider purchasing an ad in the Times with tht 53 - 53 score; that's the only way you'll ever see it there!
...or maybe after Leaning retires on Christmas Eve, young Ethan will be able stay until the end of these long meetings. But, alas, "old media" deadlines make it impossible. Are the weeklies our only hope?
The anti-Gordon proles prove what I said two centuries ago, "It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth."
The Cape been around for 22,000 years and if the Kennedys last that long we'll have plenty of wind to make those turbines go.
Apparently the author is unaware that visitors to Craigville Beach, one of the most well-known and popular public beaches on Cape Cod, could see many of the 130 metal windmills (if it were built). In a summer's season, tens of thousands of people go there.
(Stick to something you've educated yourself about..such as technology.)
And not of them will be able to view the windmills from Dead Neck Island, aka Oyster Harbors Beach. That despite the fact that it was recently deeded to a public trust.
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