Mass. delegation pushes for Energy Dept. loan for Cape Wind

April 6, 2013 New England, Offshore Wind/Industrialization

The entire Massachusetts congressional delegation has written a letter urging the Department of Energy to act quickly on Cape Wind’s loan guarantee application so that the first off-shore wind farm in the country can move forward. continued

Well, what’s it gonna be? Commercial fishing? Or a big gawd damned junk pile loaded with habitat destruction?! It’s one or the other. The phoniest people on this planet are environmentalists and politicians. Neither one of ’em produce a damned thing. Read the comments at the Herald. Not one in support of this fishing destruction boondoggle.

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Joel Hovanesian says:

April 6, 2013 at 3:50 pm

Ocean wind=taxpayer funded boondoggle. End of story.

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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