Activists, Infighting and Wind Farms...

I'm not sure what it is with environmental activists and wind farms, but they just don't seem to mix.

The driving force behind the Waterkeeper Alliance, Robert Kennedy Jr, was one of the lead players attempting to stop the development of an offshore windfarm near Martha's Vineyard a year ago. Then again, he had a very noble cause - it upset the sightlines from his family estate.

Now, a lead Maryland official in the Sierra Club is being pursued for his resignation, over blatant suppression of scientific data that likely shows a wind farm in western Maryland poses no threat whatsoever to migratory bird populations.

Dan Boone, long opposed to wind power for it's "visual impacts" and thread to birds was able to handpick a team of ornithologists to show what impact a wind-farm was having on the bird population... only the ornithologists apparently disagreed. Boone won't release the information, and now fellow members of the Sierra Club are pressing for his resignation.

Maybe wind electricity production is to environmental groups as Kryptonite is to Superman. I think we may be on to something here...