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 Tribes Claim Wind Farm Would Destroy Sacred Ritual Author: Jay Lindsay, Associated Press Source: Tampa Bay Online Title: TRIBES CLAIM WIND FARM WOULD DESTROY SACRED RITUAL From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe's religion. The Wampanoag - the tribe that welcomed the Pilgrims in the 17th century and known as "The People of the First Light" - practice sacred rituals requiring an unblocked view of the sunrise. That view won't exist once 130 turbines, each over 400 feet tall, are built several miles from shore in Nantucket Sound, visible to Wampanoag in Mashpee and on Martha's Vineyard. Tribal rituals, including dancing and chanting, take place at secret sacred sites around the sound at various times, such as the summer and winter solstices and when an elder passes. The Wampanoag fight to preserve their ceremonies has become the latest obstacle - some say delay tactic - for a pioneering wind energy project that seemed at the cusp of final approval. | |
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| Is The Solution So Obvious We Miss It??? | Nov 3rd. at 6:12:44 pm EST |
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Hoolet (Columbia, South Carolina) - Email Me The east coast is huge! Build the damn wind farm somewhere else, and make everyone happy! |
| I Can Hear The Right-wingers Now | Nov 3rd. at 12:25:10 am EST |
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Roy Linford Adams (Buxton, Maine) - Email Me "Look at the liberals fight over this, bwaa haa haa!. Those morons want to force their evil wind power on the rest of us and once they try forcing it on their own, they fight it. HA HA HAAAA! What next? they'll be trying to ban CFL bulbs because they ARE bad for the environment. HA HA!" |
| Does Business Trump Religious Liberty? | Nov 2nd. at 10:00:52 pm EST |
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nasionnaich (Stanchfield, Minnesota) - Email Me This is a question of religious freedom, not "We don't want that eyesore out there" -- although a wondrously beautiful and unobstructed sunrise over Nantucket is a sight to behold (so I have been told by friends and relatives who have been there) . The point is that the Wampanoag rituals REQUIRE an un-obstructed view of the sunrise. Aircraft and ships are temporary things, a minor inconvenience. Permanently installed wind turbines are PERMANENT -- they can not be moved out of the way and moved back once the ritual is done. I have seen wind farms many times. For them to be effective sources of power, the turbines have to be "planted" like a crop: A lot of them in one area, and clustered together so they look like a picket fence from a distance. Sometimes that "fence" more closely resembles a wall. When was the last time anyone here was able to see the moment of sunrise when it happens on the OTHER side of a wall? Anyone who really thinks the Wampanoag are just being "cry-babies" should try doing one of your own rituals without a REQUIRED component sometime. --nasionnaich |
| Natives | Nov 2nd. at 2:01:55 pm EST |
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Zodiac (Waverly, Nebraska) - Email Me Four hundred years later, still getting screwed by the people they welcomed. And once again, it will be forced on them 'for their own good.' Sad. |
| Unblocked? Doubtful. | Nov 2nd. at 12:40:45 pm EST |
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Tokkar - wtb [Sanity] (Oakland, California) - Email Me - Web With great respect and admiration for the Wampanoag nation, and while I can understand that this is something that will be constantly visible along the horizon, I still have to question their complaint here. Cargo ships and tankers, aircraft going into and out of Logan, are these things not also blocking their rituals? At least windfarms are in keeping with the premise of the First Peoples in that it is utilizing what we have in our world instead of that aging coal-fired plant over in Salem, for example. I would rather it be a few dozen windmills than offshore drilling platforms. |
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