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"Clean-energy advocates couldn't have asked for a better visual this week. While Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was in Boston announcing the approval of the country's first offshore wind farm, the Coast Guard was in the Gulf of Mexico contemplating whether setting thousands of gallons of oil on fire was a better option than letting it wash ashore in sensitive coastal areas. The spill has quickly become a black eye for the Obama administration, which last month unveiled plans--now postponed--...   >>>

"Clean-energy advocates couldn't have asked for a better visual this week. While Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was in Boston announcing the approval of the country's first offshore wind farm, the Coast Guard was in the Gulf of Mexico contemplating whether setting thousands of gallons of oil on fire was a better option than letting it wash ashore in sensitive coastal areas. The spill has quickly become a black eye for the Obama administration, which last month unveiled plans--now postponed--for a massive expansion of offshore drilling as part of their "comprehensive" energy strategy."





taken from an article by Kate Sheppard