Cape Wind Direct Communication Robert Kennedy

A Greenpeace inflatable cruises near the schooner "Spirit of Massachusetts" in Nantucket Sound with a banner reading "Bobby You're on the Wrong Boat, Yes to Cape Wind." The action was to ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr., aboard the ship as part of a Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound event, to change his opposition to the Cape Wind energy project.

Unique identifier: GP03D47

Type: Image

Shoot date: 17/08/2005

Locations: Atlantic Ocean, Massachusetts, North America, United States of America

Credit line: © Todd Warshaw / Greenpeace

Size: 2020px × 1351px 1MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Cape Wind Banner Nantucket Sound

Greenpeace protests the obstruction of the United State's first offshore wind farm on the waters of Nantucket Sound. The four-year-old battle started heating up last summer when Greenpeace USA staged a demonstration against well-known eco-activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's been an outspoken opponent of the proposal for a 130-turbine wind-power project in Horseshoe Shoal, a shallow portion of Nantucket Sound south of Cape Cod. Kennedy -- a senior attorney at Natural Resources Defence Council and a pioneer in the waterway-protection movement -- was on a sailboat for an event with the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, which opposes the wind project. A Greenpeace vessel cruised up alongside with a banner that read, "Bobby, you're on the wrong boat" -- an action that was part of a larger Greenpeace campaign pressuring Kennedy to change his mind on the development.

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