Sentences with word «nimby»

«The spirit of NIMBY [Not in My Back Yard] is as alive and well in New York City as it is anywhere.»

In government circles it's called the «NIMBY problem.»

You have it almost exactly backwards: it's not NIMBY, but IMBY, or more precisely, on my rooftop — and yours too.

Ikea, for example, barely made it into East Palo Alto, Calif. in March, and the Swedish furniture retailer has been frustrated by NIMBY campaigns against proposed sites in the New York metro area.

The home will feature a very cool solar system, using BP's low profile solar modules to avoid that pesky NIMBY effect so many people still feel.

Personally, I don't have a problem with Nimbys.

But we need to campaign for things, as well — for example, for more house - building (resisting the temptation to run local NIMBY campaigns as a short - cut to local popularity) and for small / medium - sized businesses (ensuring they can compete on a genuinely level - playing field).

SEOUL, Apr. 27 (Korea Bizwire)-- An animal shelter accommodating stray cats is under threat amid growing calls from NIMBYs to relocate the facility.

NIMBY Syndrome

It's called NIMBY.

But imagine how long the permitting and construction process will take when company executives are as loath to make these malinvestments as NIMBY - objecting residents are to have towers erected on or even on sight of their land.

At a recent taping of July's show, which will air four times a week on Channel 6, Buffalo Grove Village President Sid Mathias led a discussion of the pros and cons of extending Illinois Highway 53, one of the great NIMBY issues of the day.

Footnotes: * The coal / LNG tradeoff won't work if NIMBY outrage shuts down the addition of sufficient LPG terminals, or if Congress fails to enact a timely, low enough carbon cap.

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.

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The Liberal Democrats have previously claimed the Conservatives are suppressing the report and party president Tim Farron accused the Tories of a «Nimby attitude towards garden cities» which are likely to be in their political heartlands.

«This is just the state fucking with the city,» said one residential developer who is not involved in the project, arguing that the state withholding support for the project made it easier for local NIMBYs to challenge it.

This is the same Rex Tillerson who played the ultimate NIMBY card and encouraged use of the word «hypocrisy» by stop fracking near his Texas ranch, while backing the Texas Oil and Gas Association (of which ExxonMobil, headquartered in Irving, Texas, is a prominent member) as it defeated the will of the people of Denton, Texas, when they within city limits.

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

Yet last night the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill passed its third reading with a measly 11 Labour MPs voting against, a mixture of the hard left's usual suspects and London nimbys like Frank Dobson.

Sandwiched somewhere between climate change deniers, Adam Boulton, and not too far from a chapter on «Constituents Who Write To MPs About Squirrel Poo», the section on NIMBYs would reflect its unhallowed status.

Our perspective changes quickly when we try to view NIMBY in light of the needs of society as a whole.

In one paragraph, Toynbee talks of «conservative Nimbys who faced having the new line plough through their Chiltern estates».

Vermont Yankee (closed) Pilgrim Station (closing), Brayton Point (closing), and Salem Harbor (closed, but facing NIMBY opposition to its plan to re-fuel the oil / coal plant with natural gas) together had almost equal generating capacity as all the Maine power producers combined.

Closing Rikers, the city's violence - plagued jail complex, which will require political will to surmount NIMBY opposition and decisions on where in the boroughs to put new jails.

This weekend we read of yet another group of NIMBYs objecting to a wind farm on Georgian Bay north of Toronto.

With local refusal rates at 33 % and getting worse and nimbys getting worse turning to voilence, intimidation, arson and vandalism, met masts chopped down etc, - marshland st james etc) huge planning delays (4 yeas is becoming the norm) and M.O.D playing political games for more funding by objecting at the last minute, the planning system is massively holding the industry up and not giving the certainty to developers to invest in new plant production, resulting in the mess we have now.

There is another effect less mentioned by NIMBY reports: for a brief period just as the sun is at the right angle, the turning blades cast undulating shadows in the bedroom, a dizzying effect until the mind makes the logical association with the source of the flicker.

Speaking before the U.S. Conference of Mayors» National Economic Summit in Manhattan, the president of the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) urged the nation's leading mayors and business executives to defy NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) opposition to apartments if they want to create vibrant communities.

In fact, the public seems generally infatuated by them, which has become a vehicle for overcoming typical NIMBY pushback.

Without any other area worldwide been able to break the inefficient high tax nimby cartel and undercut California productivity, wages, and home prices?

Will high tax enviro - nimby California always be able to extract ever larger sums for housing just because it's the electronics capital?

Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States, by Barry G. Rabe (1995).

Whether the proposal is for AIDS clinics, halfway houses for prison parolees or dumps for toxic and nuclear waste, it is usually met by the opposition of citizens» groups who shout NIMBY — «not in my backyard!»

NIMBY expresses our desire for self - preservation.

They say it wasn't just a typical suburban NIMBY attack that prompted their early opposition, though there was some of that too.

Neither can we see through the eyes of people who are following an idea, blindly, nor even Nimbys.

So, stop knocking Nimbys, or even Imvis.

Forget Nimbys.

I first came across the notion of Nimbys many years ago.

That project mainly benefits Long Island as well (capacity for more service) but there is a fierce NIMBY campaign against it in western Nassau County (not his district but he has been the leader of the L.I. Senate delegation).

Those decisions, like where to put homeless shelters or garbage dumps, tend to evoke Nimby - fueled anger.

I can't think of a clearcut example off the top of my head, but it happens regularly in Europe for topics that target groups that are concentrated in only a few constituencies (e.g. tax increases, NIMBY topics like authorizing a new airport, or extra layers of government regulation).

If a Great Political Guidebook of our time existed — and the reason it doesn't is largely so the public continue to labour under the misapprehension that certain lobby correspondents actually know what they're talking about — the term NIMBY would occupy an inauspicious location within it.

He was as energetic then as he is now, throwing himself into progressive, reformist measures, quotidian NIMBY issues, and the odd animal - rights controversy.

Dromey himself had already promised 200,000 new homes a year and, though the proposed «right to grow» may prove useful for burgeoning town authorities surrounded by Conservative nimby counties.

NIMBY strikes again.

He returns to the theme today, hurling his keyboard at the «perfect idiots» on the Tory backbenchers who, he says, are «economic nimbys».