Sentences with phrase «from nimbys»

The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys.

Not exact matches

But Catherine Trapani, executive director for Homeless Services United, told Politico the lawsuit is just part of a NIMBY campaign to stop the shelter from moving forward.

Though this person did not give any hard facts supporting their opinion, I think this person suffers from «NIMBY.»

The book starts with a list of must - know acronyms (from GHG to HVAC to NIMBY (greenhouse gasses, heating ventilation and air conditioning, not in my back yard if you're wondering)-RRB- and then quickly launches into an explanation of what Clean Tech means, what it is, and why it's booming.

California could get roughly halfway to that goal in a perfect world — one without impediments such as higher costs, nimby fights and resistance from consumers and industries wedded to fossil fuels.

His conclusion, which I see as robustly supported by peer - reviewed work (including the new paper), is that California could get roughly halfway to that goal in a perfect world — one without impediments such as higher costs, nimby fights and resistance from consumers and industries wedded to fossil fuels.

Biomass Energy — Environmentalists aligning with NIMBYs to prevent new sites from getting off the ground near where they live.

Nuclear — Environmentalists aligning with NIMBYs to prevent new sites from getting off the ground near where they live.

There will always be NIMBYs that can't be reasoned with, but give members of a community more say and more to gain from such projects and you make champions out of opponents.

Finally, absent from Broecker's analysis is a consideration of the implications of seeking to store up to 34 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually in terrestrial or ocean - based facilities, including the imposing environmental and health risks associated with potential leakage, and the huge «NIMBY» battles that may ensue in areas where such facilities might be sited.

Evidence is mounting that we are not nimby's or deluded or under some irrational nocebo effect, our walls do indeed shake from noise and the noise emissions are in fact harmful.

In America, everyone from David Owen to Edward Glaeser to Ryan Avent to Matt Yglesias to Alex Steffen say that zoning restrictions, NIMBYs and historic preservationists are preventing development that would make housing affordable and economies boom.

More Renewable Energy NIMBYs Take Note: Study Finds Wind Turbines Have No Significant Impact on Property Value Lithium - Ion Batteries for EVs to Grow from $ 878 Million Market in 2010 to $ 8 Billion in 2015 Plastic Solar Breakthrough: Efficiency Record Broken by Solarmer

NIMBY people won't be pleased, but electricity has to come from somewhere.

Oliver correctly puts the blame mostly on Senator Harry Reid from Nevada who killed Yucca Mountain for purely NIMBY reasons (not in my back yard).

While many residents in some places, such as Cape Cod, take a NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) view of wind farms, the opposite is true in much of the rest of the country — including the ranch country that extends from Texas north through the Dakotas.

@JonathanReez The economic prosperity of Glendale has historically arisen from their ability to offer zoning leniency that Denver will not for NIMBY uses.