Sentences with phrase «with nimbys»

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

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

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

Not exact matches

«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.

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.»

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.

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.

Meanwhile, the north of China famously struggles with a lack of water, something nuclear power stations require plenty of to keep reactors cool, and the east coast, where there is plenty of water, is home to China's most developed cities, which are increasingly turning to NIMBY - ism.

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.

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.

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.

Interview with Jim Gordon, CEO of Cape Wind The famed Cape Wind offshore wind project has finally been granted a permit to begin construction, after a decade - long battle with the company and clean energy advocates on one side, and well - funded fossil fuel industry interests and NIMBY concerns on the other.

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.

The NIMBYs will have a field day with that.

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.

I guess the world will always be plagued by dinosaurs and nimbys and no matter what you try someone somewhere will object so I guess the saner amongst us will just have to put up with it.

With cheap alternatives like coal always on hand, and that dangerous, fallout - prone perception entrenched in the American imagination — and the NIMBY

Better we have a living city with a couple of less - than - perfect buildings, than a stifled one governed by nostalgists and Nimbys.

This is legal, as the minimum setback in Ontario has been legislated to 550 m. Legal does not make it right and it does not make it healthy; and yes we are NIMBYs but, as we learned, with far more reason than simple esthetics.