Daily Show’s Jason Jones took on the Cape Wind debate on the Wednesday, 8/8, show. An offshore wind farm is being proposed in Nantucket Sound, which would provide energy for 75% of the region. The project is facing opposition from the Kennedy family and other wealthy coastal homeowners, partly because their houses (including the “Kennedy Compound”) would be in sight of the turbines.

The wind farm is unique not only because it would replace a bunker oil and natural gas power plant, but also because it would be the first wind farm of its size in the US. For more about the controversy, go to Wikipedia’s very good page, here.

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