Sentences with phrase «nimbys getting»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

NIMBY taken to its extreme: Get your primary resources off - planet.

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.

All the smart young economists and urban writers (most of whom live in New York, Toronto, San Francisco and Washington) are piling on to Ed Glaeser's thesis that we have to roll back zoning regulations, get rid of the NIMBYs and the preservationists and let a thousand towers bloom.

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.

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Historic preservation types often get accused of being NIMBY, particularly now when Edward Glaeser and his ilk think everything should be knocked down and replaced with 40 storey towers.