Cape Wind Project Approved by Interior Department

That rumbling sound you hear at Arlington is Teddy Kennedy spinning in his grave:

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday approved the construction of a controversial wind

farm off the coast of Cape Cod that puts the Obama administration at odds with one of the president's biggest supporters: the Kennedy family.

Salazar's decision will affect thousands of residents, local businesses and tourists who flock to the seashore paradise each summer -- and sets the course for the building of other such offshore wind farms in states from New York to Michigan.

The Cape Wind project, which will be the first in the nation, had created a bipartisan jumble that pit environmentalists and lawmakers against each other on both sides of the dispute over the 130 planned turbines -- whose windmill arms would extend over 400 feet above the water.

Salazar said the decision marks a "new direction in our nation's energy future," claiming the wind farm will be "one of the largest greenhouse gas reduction initiatives in the nation," cutting carbon dioxide emissions from conventional power plants by 700,000 tons annually.

The offshore wind farm, to be built five miles off the Massachusetts coast, has been blasted by critics like the Kennedys as an "economic boondoggle" that will cost taxpayers billions, hurt commercial fishing and pose a danger to wildlife along a pristine stretch of the Nantucket Sound.

"It's a boondoggle of the worst kind," Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and the son of the late Bobby Kennedy, said in an interview Tuesday with FoxNews.com. "It's going to cost the people of Massachusetts $4 billion over the next 20 years in extra costs."

And yet I've never heard RFK Jr. decry the gasoline taxes that are constantly being increased, thus raising energy costs for all those people in Massachusetts and elsewhere.  The Kennedy's just don't want to look out the window of their family compound and see anything other than underage girls.