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As Democrats finalize their wholesale sell-out of 30 years of environmental protections dramatic reversal on the offshore oil drilling ban, Representative Ed "Biz" Markey may have spared Massachusetts the drill. The Globe reports that Markey included a last-minute revision to the House energy bill that will protect Georges Bank from any future offshore drilling. The area had been one of three on the Atlantic Coast that would have been subjected to new exploration. Back in the seventies, it was Massachusetts fisherman who were among the most vocal groups clamoring to ban offshore drilling. If we had to take a stab in the dark, however, we'd guess that this time around there were more, um, leisurely forces at work behind the scenes.

This week, the Civil Society Institute released survey results that showed 82 percent of people in Massachusetts approved of Cape Wind, which would install wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. The news came out just as Cape Wind supporters were pushing for US Rep Ed "Biz" Markey to publicly back the project. {They are not lobbying Senator Ted Kennedy, who, in a fit of NIMBYism, has opposed the project from the get-go because Nantucket Sound is his backyard.)