Save the world, just not in my backyard

Apparently the wind power project in Nantucket Sound that we covered a while ago is going to go forward

The ruling to proceed followed well-established law which restricts state jurisdiction for marine construction to the zone within 3 nautical miles (about 3.5 real miles) of the mean low water mark. Opponents of the clean power project included Walter Cronkite and Senator Ted ‘Diamond Joe’ Kennedy, as well as the ex-head of Phelps-Dodge, a strip mining company that operates in the western United States.

Posted by jank at August 21, 2003 1:36 PM