Marathon Pundit: RFK, Jr: Environmental hypocrite

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is in the news again today. As part of last weekend's Live Earth concerts, Kennedy, who does not sing, fired off some sour notes all the same on of the heavy carbon foot-print stage.

Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies. This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors.

RFK Jr. might as well start with his uncle, reputed environmentalist Teddy Kennedy, who is opposed to the Cape Wind renewable energy project in Nantucket Sound.

Of course RFK Jr., who is not a public official, is a hypocrite himself, explaining his opposition in 2002:

People go to the cape because they want to connect themselves with the history and the culture. They want to see the same scenes the Pilgrims saw when they landed at Plymouth Rock.

The Kennedy family has a famous compound in Hyannis Port, near the proposed wind farm.

In 2005, he opened his New York Times op-ed with this paragraph:

As an environmentalist, I support wind power, including wind power on the high seas. I am also involved in siting wind farms in appropriate landscapes, of which there are many. But I do believe that some places should be off limits to any sort of industrial development. I wouldn't build a wind farm in Yosemite National Park. Nor would I build one on Nantucket Sound, which is exactly what the company Energy Management is trying to do with its Cape Wind project.