NIMBYism run amok [RE-wrenches]

[matthew tritt]

Rant on:

It must be the same all over this Grand Nation of ours. The hypocrisy is so
blatant and so unreasonable it makes your head swim.

What I wonder is why Europe is so ahead of us in this regard (and a few
others), and why there isn't a national alternative energy imperative, all
things considered? Considering the available wind and solar resources, you
would expect more than rhetoric out of D.C.

Rant off.

Matt T
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Herander, VSE" <kirk at vtsolar.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: NIMBYism run amok [RE-wrenches]


> Here in Vermont, the newpapers are increasing filled with high profile
NIMBY
> cases in opposition to wind generators. The local paper just the other day
> editorialized about utility transmission lines as a blight on the
landscape,
> and threw in the statement (to quote loosely) "Vermont has no place for
> mountaintop transmission lines, wind measuring equipment, or wind towers."
>
> I have a customer presently fighting some NIMBY neighbors. He has a town
> permit for his off-grid 100' xl.1 tower. But the NIMBY's, after having
lost
> at the town level, are appealing to the State Environmental Board, all at
my
> customer's expense. NIMBY's in VT have appealed all the way to the State
> Supreme Court before, and I'll be surprised if it ends with the Enviro
> Board. Of course, the nearest neighbor making the big stink is 2000 ft
away
> from the tower. In her complaint she's also challenged the solar modules,
> afraid they will act like mirrors and blind her view, not to mention her
> silly arguments in regard to the propane generator. I've found that
NIMBY's
> most of the time do not approach the issue with an open mind. These
> neighbors to my understanding have not bothered to look at other similar
> installations I've suggested. They just don't want it "ruining" their
> (literally) million dollar view.
>
> Kirk
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "matthew tritt" <solarone at charter.net>
> To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:53 AM
> Subject: Re: wireless internet dish/wind turbine tower [RE-wrenches]
>
>
> > Do you mean that they have less capital to throw around or that they're
> more
> > likely to play hardball?
> >
> > When I last talked to the telecom people about putting up shared wind
and
> > telecom towers, they were willing to virtually write-off the turbine
> expense
> > as just a part of doing business! This was way back a year and a half
ago
> > when it was easy to install turbines and not telecom towers. My how
things
> > have changed.
> > Our county now wants an arm and a leg just for a conditional use permit
to
> > install any wind turbine, and it "must" be on a minimum of 20 freakin
> acres!
> > It's the NIMBY factor in full force.
> >
>
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