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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsjust another affirmation that Billy Kock is a dick
Of course, that is the last thing he wants. Mr. Koch, a billionaire industrialist who made his fortune in fossil fuels and whose better-known brothers underwrite conservative political causes, has been fighting the wind farm, called Cape Wind, for more than a decade, donating about $5 million and leading an adversarial group against it. He believes that Cape Winds 130 industrial turbines would not only create what he calls visual pollution but also increase the cost of electricity for everyone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/us/koch-brother-wages-12-year-fight-over-wind-farm.html?hp
Nitram
(22,890 posts)What a dick.
Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)Along with the possibility that he can't control it and that someone would have the audacity to think they can spoil it.
Of course the money is important to him, but at that level, I think it is more about power and winning. He already has enough money to buy anything money can buy. More money is probably mostly a way to keep score.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)he wouldn't have a problem with it.
AZ Mike
(468 posts)....I wonder where his concern was for those in Michigan who had a lovely view of the black mountain of petcoke.
Liberty for me, but not for thee....
hatrack
(59,593 posts)He'll then probably demand "emergency" subsidized funding for the rebuild from Uncle Sugar, rugged individualist that he is . . .
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Good. We hate him. Double the size of the windfarm and plant it right in front of his view.