Documents link wind farm foes to energy firm

[bananas]

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2008/05/15/documents_link_wind_farm_foes_to_energy_firm/

Documents link wind farm foes to energy firm
Filing revised as alliance calls it a mistake

By Stephanie Ebbert
Globe Staff / May 15, 2008

A new lobbying firm for the group opposing a wind farm off Cape Cod filed a federal document last month reporting that its work for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound is partially funded and shaped by an international energy conglomerate.

The disclosure represents the first documented financial connection between the group opposing the wind farm and Oxbow Corp., which mines and markets energy and commodities, including coal, natural gas, and petroleum.

The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound immediately decried the filing as a mistake, and the lobbying firm later amended it in the US Senate Office of Public Records to eliminate the reference to Oxbow.

Oxbow's founder, Osterville yachtsman William I. Koch, has been a cochairman of the alliance since 2005, a year that saw a flurry of congressional attempts to kill the wind farm. While Oxbow maintains that its lobbyists monitor Cape Wind because of the corporation's interest in energy and shipping, Cape Wind proponents assert that Oxbow's lobbyists have been doing far more to fight the wind farm.

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[ixion]

1. expect Big Energy to fight like hell to avoid the change to

distributed energy systems.

[The2ndWheel]

2. And then expect those distributed energy systems

to become Big Energy.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. What A Surpise--NOT!!!

I'm not surprised that documents linking some of the Cape Cod-area plutocrats to the anti-wind farm forces have finally surfaced. Wendy Williams' and Robert Whitcomb's book Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound has detailed the roles that wealthy NIMBYs have played in fighting the proposal for a Nantucket Sound wind farm.

I disagree about the energy companies fighting the wind farm because it's alternate energy. I believe that Oxbow is fighting Cape Wind because its major shareholder doesn't want the views from his summer place spoiled by distant wind turbines.

[kristopher]

4. The Senate site has already been scrubbed or it crashed.

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Was in response to this search: http://www.senate.gov/general/search/search_cfm.cfm?q=BKSH+%26+ASSOCIATES%2C+ALLIANCE+TO+PROTECT+NANTUCKET+SOUND%2C+6291-1004125.&x=4&y=9&site=default_collection&num=10&filter=0

at this site:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections_with_teasers/clientlist_page_B.htm

Which is this google hit:
U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Lobbying Disclosure ...
Registrant/Client List and Senate Identification Numbers ...... BKSH & ASSOCIATES, ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND, 6291-1004125. gray line ...
www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections_with_teasers/clientlist_page_B.htm - 564k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

If anyone gets a copy of the original posting, I'd love to see it.

Thanks.

[YankeyMCC]

5. I posted this in the MA forum the day it came out

not a peep in response, kinda disheartening.

[bananas]

7. Next time post it in the EE forum

the state forums probably aren't read much.

[JohnWxy]

6. REcommended!

[NNadir]

8. Is that why Robert F. Kennedy was working so hard for gas terminals off of Malibu?

You mean, after fighting Cape Wind, he went to work for a gas company, just like the fundie ant-nukes Amory Lovins and Gerhard Schroeder?

Who knew?

[kristopher]

9. A copy of the filing available for download

http://www.capecodtoday.com/downloads/Alliance-Oxbow%20lobby%20filing.pdf

[bananas]

10. Thanks! nt