sanctuary
There is an article that appeared in the New York Times Magazine Sunday, about the proposed wind turbine project on Nantucket shoals.
It's about the reaction of a coalition of homeowners, and vacationeers out there. They don't like it. It dosen't burn oil, it doesn't burn coal, it doesn't require coal or oil to be dug or sucked out of the ground, it doesn't damn up the Hetch Hetchy. It doesn't need field operations by the third armored division.
It doesn't matter, they don't like it. It's in their back yard and it would spoil the view. The article itself does a fairly good job of outlining the irony involved, and it provides notes on the players. I especially like the line from hikers, who opposed a set of windmills because they could be seen from the appalachian trail.
I don't see life from quite the same angle as the people in this article, even perhaps its writer. I live and have lived in neighborhoods where things "get put", where its already been agreed they aren't going elsewhere. I see things in sympathy for all those who live next to half a mountain because the other half has been torn down to get at coal. I hear things in sympathy with those whose homes are under an over overflight lane so the capacity of an airport can been increased. I'm sure that this turbine project will work just as well if they build it off of Lynn or in Worcester maybe. As for the electrical cable that goes off the mainland to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket -- that can be cut.
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