Sentences with phrase «not nimby»

Mark: I am not a nimby, there is no wind farm, existing or planned, within 20 km of where I live.

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.

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

Not exact matches

This approach assumes that if all communities take the NIMBY attitude, government agencies will not be able to find any backyard in which to dump toxic chemicals and nuclear waste, and the system will become plugged.

it seems to come down to the ADL being a NIMBY (not in my back yard) when it comes to mosques.

They are the nimbys — the «not in my back yards».

For the uninitiated, a nimby is someone who objects to a new development close to home - Not In My Back Yard.

«Nimbys», he called them: Not In My Back Yard.

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

He then cheekily quipped, «Well, do you think the chancellor is a nimby [not in my back yard]?»

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).

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

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).

My constituents are not «nimbies».

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.

«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.

I expect there will be some grumbling about «naysayers» and «nimby» and public interference... understandable, of course, but will not be taken seriously.

She acknowledged the challenges that come with the «Not in My Backyard,» or «NIMBY,» worldview — which the mayor said has hurt the city's proposals to bring homeless shelters to different neighborhoods — noting that given the rising population of New York City, the city has to «build more than people in neighborhoods would like.»

That force — NIMBY or Not In My Back Yard - ism — has taken distinct forms on different issues, but has been causing the de Blasio administration trouble and frustrating the mayor.

Because it will be built along a mostly industrial right - of - way, Cuomo doesn't foresee any significant «siting issues» of the NIMBY variety.

He acknowledges the not - in - my - backyard (NIMBY) syndrome that skeptics assume will limit wind farming: «There clearly is the NIMBY problem.

There are countless home videos like these online of bears where they shouldn't be: climbing over a car windshield while a baby screams in the backseat; throwing a pool party in Connecticut, which was cute, in a NIMBY kind of way.

NIMBYs rail against big box retailers setting up on the edge of town, but in the end just can't help but shop there («just for the basics», you know...).

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

Just a minor request... could some of the overwhelming number of acronyms be fleshed out occasionally for those of us who don't necessarily know what they stand for... NIMBY, MBTU, HCFC etc etc... although familiar to many who post, I would like to remind all that we are trying to educate a larger readership, and ultimately influence public policy.

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.

However, the tricky issue is finding land — a problem that all potential tiny housers face, regardless of their situation — but in the case of housing the homeless in tiny house developments, such well - meaning initiatives can meet strong opposition fueled by NIMBY - ism (not in my backyard).

If NIMBY weren't as much of an issue as it is, we could probably take advantage of distributed heat systems for much of our urban existing home stock.

Social because of both a NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) attitude and irrational level of fear of radiation.

(I'm not going to call them Nimby's, because I think it misses the point, and the emphasis on people «investing» in asset inflation has political origins.

In more densely populated areas, there is often local opposition to wind power — the NIMBY («not in my backyard») response.

STT's editorial team does not live near wind turbines and their homes are not threatened by wind turbines, so we reject the NIMBY charge often levelled by those who never have to live or work near industrial wind turbines, at the unfortunates who have no choice but to do so.

Then, when people didn't like that idea they could have countered with a dramatically scaled back half - measure of a protected bike lane and improved pedestrian safety redesign of Clinton Ave.. It'd have been so mundane and low - key compared to the highly disruptive plan on Vanderbilt that maybe, just maybe, all the NIMBYs would have gone for it.

Just like here in Oz so called research which is not unbiased and independent where a sociologist tells everyone we are NIMBYs, or have the «nocebo» effect or are mental.

The cost of creating and siting landfills will continue to increase due to more rigid environmental mandates compounded by ever more toxic man made materials and public policy issues, the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) syndrome.

Beyond pricing instruments, the other approaches include regulation under the Clean Air Act, energy policies not targeted exclusively at climate change, public nuisance litigation, and NIMBY and other public interventions to block permits for new fossil - fuel related investments.

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.

Although there are NIMBY problems («not in my backyard»), the PIMBY response («put it in my backyard») is much more pervasive.

There are those who are perfectly happy to throw Ramsar under the bus, and yell «NIMBY» at those who think this is not such a great idea at all.

Is the claim the ultimate application of Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY)?

Jonathan: I'm not keen on the «Nimby» expression because people object to wind farms for all sorts of reasons.

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

Not built because of NIMBY.

Well - financed NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) activists and a small minority of labor unions defend exclusionary laws that prevent homebuilding, in both cities and suburbs.

I certainly don't want to become dependent on French electricity — in my view reducing our trade deficit is more important than appeasing NIMBYs.

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.

As the battle over garbage heats up, and it becomes harder to site new landfills either due to NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) or the latest BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything), and as more and more landfills are closing, reuse and recycling will play a bigger role.

Some elected officials openly stated early efforts looked a lot like NIMBY actions (Not in my Back Yard) and were reluctant to embrace conservation that would only affect a neighborhood.

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

One key difference with wind turbines is that free flow hydro turbines are not visible, so the «not in my backyard» (NIMBY) attitude shouldn't be a problem.