NIMBYism run amok [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

For several years, some people in Sweden wanted to install off-shore wind
generators but other people in Sweden do not want wind generators to in their
view of the ocean. This is the same country that voted to go 100% nuclear in the
1970s and then voted to stop nuclear development and phase out nuclear power
plants after the Chernobyl disaster. They have a problem because there is not
enough solar resource or biomass for the over 9 million citizens.

matthew tritt wrote:

> 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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