Comments on: Mafia Ties to Wind Fraud in Italy Investigated http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/17/mafia-tied-to-wind-fraud-in-italy/ Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 22:05:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barbara Durkin http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/17/mafia-tied-to-wind-fraud-in-italy/comment-page-1/#comment-162849 Barbara Durkin Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:50:57 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27403#comment-162849 Cape Wind is a phantom wind energy project after 7 years in review. That fact brings lends new meaning to "a poor investment for taxpayers" [Dakota Voice]. "...We think it's very troubling that taxpayers have been funding 17 agencies' studies of the potential effects of the Cape Wind spec'd GE 3.6 MW "discontinued" wind turbine-for years. We are also concerned that the Patrick and Obama administrations consider this "discontinued" hardware will stimulate our economy, reduce our dependency on fossil fuel, and provide benefits greater than detriments. Wishful thinking, lacking due diligence, and/or malfeasance only pave the way to what should be anticipated and avoided, greater public and environmental debt. Over the course of building the Big Dig, 11 government agencies employing hundreds of thousands had direct and indirect oversight on this project. Minerals Management Service, direct overseer of the Cape Wind project, employs 1,400 people who shoulder management responsibility of more than one billion offshore acres. To put this in perspective, the Big Dig and the Cape Wind projects each span approximately 24 square miles on land and sea respectively. And, the Big Dig has left taxpayers with $7 billion in interest payments that we will not retire until 2038." Christy Mihos candidate for Governor of MA (and Big Dig Whistleblower) and Barbara Durkin http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinion/x735083536/Durkin-Mihos-Why-Cape-Wind-wont-work Cape Wind is a phantom wind energy project after 7 years in review. That fact brings lends new meaning to “a poor investment for taxpayers” [Dakota Voice].

“…We think it’s very troubling that taxpayers have been funding 17 agencies’ studies of the potential effects of the Cape Wind spec’d GE 3.6 MW “discontinued” wind turbine-for years.

We are also concerned that the Patrick and Obama administrations consider this “discontinued” hardware will stimulate our economy, reduce our dependency on fossil fuel, and provide benefits greater than detriments. Wishful thinking, lacking due diligence, and/or malfeasance only pave the way to what should be anticipated and avoided, greater public and environmental debt.

Over the course of building the Big Dig, 11 government agencies employing hundreds of thousands had direct and indirect oversight on this project. Minerals Management Service, direct overseer of the Cape Wind project, employs 1,400 people who shoulder management responsibility of more than one billion offshore acres.

To put this in perspective, the Big Dig and the Cape Wind projects each span approximately 24 square miles on land and sea respectively. And, the Big Dig has left taxpayers with $7 billion in interest payments that we will not retire until 2038.”

Christy Mihos candidate for Governor of MA (and Big Dig Whistleblower)
and Barbara Durkin

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinion/x735083536/Durkin-Mihos-Why-Cape-Wind-wont-work

]]> By: Madalyn http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/17/mafia-tied-to-wind-fraud-in-italy/comment-page-1/#comment-162845 Madalyn Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:21:14 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27403#comment-162845 With your headline of this story, you have propogated a stereotype that all Italian businessmen are mafia. That is incorrect ethnic stereotyping. Your article suggests that the businessmen have acted unethically -- which is certainly something that happens in many other countries. That does not make them part of organized crime. Until the men are clearly identified as mafia by the authorities, you should not identify them as such. With your headline of this story, you have propogated a stereotype that all Italian businessmen are mafia. That is incorrect ethnic stereotyping. Your article suggests that the businessmen have acted unethically — which is certainly something that happens in many other countries. That does not make them part of organized crime. Until the men are clearly identified as mafia by the authorities, you should not identify them as such.

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