Cape Wind Opposition In Perspective

In the wake of the TVA disaster, it seems an appropriate time to re-think DIRTY COAL.

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30 Times The Size of Exxon Valdez #3

30 Times The Size of Exxon Valdez #2

30 Times The Size of Exxon Valdez

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Coal is Dirty Energy and will NEVER be clean regardless of how much we pretend.
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This is why Cape Wind needs our wholehearted support and Americans should be embracing alternative energy and energy efficiency.

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This was previously posted - No Clean Coal
Dirty Coal spent + $20 Million and 8 years fighting Cape Wind, the wind farm proposed off the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Had they not delayed the project, Cape residents, ordinary folks like you and me, would be enjoying environmentally-friendly energy and cleaner air.
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This recent article made me wonder about Rep. Rahall's sudden opposition ---
12/22/08 Another House chairman urges Cape Wind delay
Rep. Rahall backs more time for public input into Coast Guard decision Congressional legislators continue to line up on either side of the latest Cape Wind controversy: whether to delay permitting of the proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound, and if so, by how much. With the two top members of the Senate Energy Committee coming forward to support a rapid approval of the 468-megawatt Cape Wind project, the chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall II, is backing his colleague on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in devoting more time for review. "A project like Cape Wind, which would be the first offshore wind energy installation in United States waters, has a precedental value that requires extra caution." - Rep. Nick Rahall II .
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Note: Rep. Rahall is a Democrat from West Virginia, a state with extensive mountaintop removal projects to recover dirty coal while despoiling the environment.
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Below is a quick list of some of Rep. Rahall's campaign contributors from congress.org.

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Not all of the contributors have been researched, I'll leave that to the readers, but Entergy has been commented on before. They are about to pork the taxpayer with major expenses for decommissioning by spinning off Vermont Yankee and they also own Plymouth Pilgrim.

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Dominion is the company that owns the Dirty Salem Coal Plant.
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In September, I posted Mercury, Power Plants, Fish and Cement Kilns which addressed the unregulated mercury pollution of cement kilns. Several seem to be on Rep. Rahall's list of campaign contributors.

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The following represents some political campaign contributions in excess of $1,000 for 2007-2008:
ALTRIA GROUP, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ALTRIAPAC) $1000
KOCH INDUSTRIES INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (KOCHPAC) $1000
NRG ENERGY INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000
HOOK POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000
OLDCASTLE MATERIALS INC. PAC $1000
COALPAC A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL MINING ASSOCIATION $1000
CAITHNESS EQUITIES CORPORATION PAC $1000

ESSROC CEMENT CORP POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE ESSROC PAC $1000

NATIONAL READY MIXED CONCRETE ASSN. PAC (CONCRETEPAC) $1000

CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORPORATION FED-PAC $1000

UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

HDR, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (HDR PAC) $1000

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DRILLING CONTRACTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

ISLE OF CAPRI CASINOS INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

ENTERGY CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE "ENPAC" $1000 INSTITUTE OF MAKERS OF EXPLOSIVES POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (IMEPAC) $1000

MASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA POLITICAL ACTION COMMITEE-MACPAC $1500

ALLEGHENY ENERGY INC. FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2000 EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (EXXONMOBIL PAC) $2000

AMERICAN INDIAN SOVEREIGNTY SELF-DETERMINATION $2000

BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS AND TRAINMEN PAC FUND $2000 AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT, THE $2000

CONSOL ENERGY INC & CNX GAS CORPORATION PAC $2000

3M COMPANY $2000

MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION FOR PRIVATE PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SURVEYORS PAC (MAPPS PAC) $2000

AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION-COPE $2500

INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY (IGT) PAC $2500

TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEE $2500 AMERICAN ROAD & TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION PAC $2500 DOMINION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2500

WASHINGTON DIVISION OF URS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $3500

PARSONS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $4000

ARCH COAL INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ARCHPAC) $4000

TRUCKING POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC. $4500

UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA - COAL MINERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $4500

MAJORITY PAC $5000

UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (UTU PAC) $5000 UNITE HERE TIP CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE $5000

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS PAC $5000

NATIONAL STONE, SAND & GRAVEL ASSOCIATION ROCKPAC $5000

FOUNDATION COAL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $5000

BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE CORPORATION RAILPAC (BNSF RAILPAC) $6000

CSX CORPORATION GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND $10000

NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND $10000

UNION PACIFIC CORP. FUND FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT $10000

ENGINEERS POLITICAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE (EPEC)/INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS $10000

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The following represents political campaign contributions in excess of $1,000 for 2005-2006:

MIRANT CORPORATION PAC INC. $1000

ALLEGHENY ENERGY INC. FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

CONSOL ENERGY INC & CNX GAS CORPORATION PAC $1000

HDR, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (HDR PAC) $1000

CON-WAY INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

CSX CORPORATION GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND $1000

NATSO INC. NATSO PAC $1000

WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC. PAC, THE $1000

NATIONAL TANK TRUCK CARRIERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF INC. PAC $1000

BRINK'S COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, THE $1000

TRANSPORTATION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (TTD/PAC) $1000

BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

LAMAR CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (LAMARPAC) $1000 MANTECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000 NISOURCE INC. PAC $1000

INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY (IGT) PAC $1000

PG&E CORPORATION EMPLOYEES ENERGYPAC $1000

NATIONAL STONE, SAND & GRAVEL ASSOCIATION ROCKPAC $1000

TOURPAC $1000

MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (MTI PAC) $1000

AUSTIN POWDER COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AUSPOCO PAC) $1000

AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE; THE (GASPAC) $1000

UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000 ENTERGY CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE "ENPAC" $1000

TEXAS INDUSTRIES INC POLITICAL ACTION COMM $1500

SHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION LEAGUE $1500

3M COMPANY $2000

WASHINGTON DIVISION OF URS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2000

OLDCASTLE MATERIALS INC. PAC $2000

ASHLAND INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FOR EMPLOYEES (PACE) $2000 UNION PACIFIC CORP. FUND FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT $2000

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT, THE $2000

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NSPE-PAC) $2000

MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION FOR PRIVATE PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SURVEYORS PAC (MAPPS PAC) $2000

TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEE $2000 INTERSTATE NATURAL GAS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2000

FOUNDATION COAL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2000

NATIONAL PROPANE GAS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE -PROPANEPAC $2000

BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD SIGNALMEN POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2000 DOMINION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2000

AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION-COPE $2500

TRUCKING POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC. $2507

PARSONS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $3000

UNITE HERE TIP CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE $3000

ARCH COAL INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ARCHPAC) $3000

BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE CORPORATION RAILPAC (BNSF RAILPAC) $3000 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES (ACEC/PAC) $3000

AMERICAN ROAD & TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION PAC $3000
NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND $5000

UNITED STEELWORKERS POLITICAL ACTION FUND $6000

UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA - COAL MINERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $6000

LABORERS' POLITICAL LEAGUE-LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF N.A. $7500


ENGINEERS POLITICAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE (EPEC)/INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS $9500

UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (UTU PAC) $10000

UAW - V - CAP (UAW VOLUNTARY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM) $10000

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The following represents political campaign contributions in excess of $1,000 for 2003-2004:


ALLEGHENY ENERGY INC. FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

ALTRIA GROUP, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ALTRIAPAC) $1000

HDR, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (HDR PAC) $1000

3M COMPANY $1000

NATIONAL UTILITY CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION AND ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF INC. PAC $1000

SUN PAC $1000

VEN-PAC $1000

TRANSPORTATION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (TTD/PAC) $1000

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL AND OFFICE PROPERTIES DEVELOPMENT PAC (NAIOP-PAC) $1000

BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS AND TRAINMEN PAC FUND $1000

INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF BOILERMAKERS CAMPAIGN ASSISTANCE FUND $1000

MANTECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NSPE-PAC) $1000

MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION FOR PRIVATE PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SURVEYORS PAC (MAPPS PAC) $1000

INTERSTATE NATURAL GAS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

NATIONAL STONE, SAND & GRAVEL ASSOCIATION ROCKPAC $1000

AUSTIN POWDER COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AUSPOCO PAC) $1000

PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO LP POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000
ARKANSAS BEST CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1000

LAMAR CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (LAMARPAC) $1500

CSX CORPORATION GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND $2000

OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSN INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AKA OOIDA-PAC) $2000
AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT, THE $2000

BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE CORPORATION RAILPAC (BNSF RAILPAC) $2000

AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES (ACEC/PAC) $2000 DMJM+HARRIS PAC $2000

MARATHON OIL COMPANY EMPLOYEES POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (MEPAC) $2000

AMERICAN ROAD & TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION PAC $2000

UNITED STEELWORKERS POLITICAL ACTION FUND $2000

DOMINION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2000

NAAA-ADC INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2000

AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION-COPE $2500

TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEE $2500

PARSONS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $3000

ARCH COAL INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ARCHPAC) $3000

OLDCASTLE MATERIALS INC. PAC $3000

ENGINEERS POLITICAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE (EPEC)/INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS $3500

UNION PACIFIC CORP. FUND FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT $4000

NATIONAL READY MIXED CONCRETE ASSN. PAC (CONCRETEPAC) $4000

MACHINISTS NON PARTISAN POL LEAGUE OF THE INT'L ASSN OF MACHINISTS & AEROSPACE WORKERS $5000

NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND $6000

UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA - COAL MINERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $7500

LABORERS' POLITICAL LEAGUE-LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF N.A. $8000

UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (UTU PAC) $10000

Rep. Rahall: One must wonder if offshore drilling with dangerous chemicals received the same scrutiny as Cape Wind. One must also question your sincerity in opposing immediate approval of Cape Wind, a project that would offer clean energy and lead the way for others to follow after reviewing your list of campaign donors. Maybe it's time to act for the public good and support Cape Wind.