NIMBY

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• The barrier stays

  
  Fagstein — Authority: 475
  The barrier segregating Montreal West from the Ville Saint Pierre district of Lachine is here to stay. The Quebec Court of Appeal this week upheld a lower court ruling that Montreal West was within its rights to setup a barrier to car traffic between the two towns. Though Montreal (which the Lachine borough is part ...
  1 day ago

• BLM defers Mt Princeton geothermal lease sale

  
  Salida Citizen — Authority: 133
  At a request from the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, the BLM withheld a proposed geothermal lease on property near the Mt Princeton Hot Springs Resort from its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held today in Denver. While oil and gas leases are commonplace for the BLM, the Mt. Princeton parcel is likely ...
  3 days ago

• Fallacies offer cold comfort for cognitive dissonance

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 132
  “Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.” ~ Mark Twain Twain’s wisdom came to mind as I read a recent article by new Dispatch columnist John Larson (another new club member; welcome!) about medical marijuana dispensaries. Near as I can tell, Larson ...
  4 days ago

• Spoiling the Bunch

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 560
  One thing thats become clear since the passage of Prop 1A one year ago is that the projects opponents have learned from their defeat. Instead of launching a frontal assault on the concept of high speed rail, which a clear majority of Californians support, theyve decided to focus on generating local opposition along ...
  5 days ago

• EarthTalk: The Aesthetics of Windfarms

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 514
  EarthTalk ® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine EarthTalk®?From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I don’t understand why many people oppose wind power just because they have to look at the turbines. If you ...
  6 days ago

• New Zealand Environment Court Says No to Huge Wind Farm

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 633
  What would have been the Southern Hemisphere’s largest wind farm, a $2 billion NZD ($1.4 billion USD) and 630 MW wind farm in New Zealand, is not happening because New Zealand’s Environment Court says that it would ruin the surrounding landscape. This project would have powered over a million homes and made a ...
  6 days ago

• NIMBYism Alive and Well, Even in Sunny California

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 131
  Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) syndrome is well documented in the wind energy sector. In short, it’s difficult to hide a wind turbine — no matter what size. Nantucket property owners, for instance, have long resisted progress of the Cape Wind, a project that aims to site 130 offshore wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. ...
  1 week ago

• The NIMBYed gentry

  
  goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust — Authority: 474
  Deborah Coddington is appalled that a wind farm in the Wairarapa is going to wreck the world around her: With 45 turbines twice as high as the Auckland Harbour Bridge, and blades twice as large as the Westpac Stadium, sited 8km from the town square, this could be the end of Martinborough as we know and love it . ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does Russell Peterson Know What Hes Doing?

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 560
  In response to a recent Wired Magazine article that declared "NIMBYs wont be able to stop California HSR," one of the more prominent Peninsula NIMBYs, Russell Peterson, decided to not go gently into that dark night. He wrote an email in reply to the article that was itself posted on the Wired site this week. Its a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Arts At St Johns Season Showcase Oct 24th 7pm

  
  Debra Cortese - Nature's Energy — Authority: 115
  An eclectic array of talent, refreshments, live performances, all genres of music and entertainment come together in celebration of 10 years of artistic excellence that Arts At St Johns has presented to the Miami communities! photo: Nimby Cirque Join us tomorrow night (Oct. 24th, 2009) at 7 pm at St. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Councils should be forced to set aside land for wind farms says John Prescott

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Councils should be forced to put aside land for wind farms just as they currently have to do for traveller sites John Prescott has suggested.
  3 weeks ago

• Aussie biodiesel entrepreneur struggles with NIMBY complaints over odors

  
  Biofuels Digest Biofuels DIgest — Authority: 588
  In Australia, Perth-based entrepreneur Robin Penfold is in a fight with neighbors over approval of his warehouse-based biodiesel production plant. According to a report in WA Today, “one neighbouring business said that odour from Mr Penfold’s warehouse affected custom, to the point of making clients want to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Waste and recycling centres and issues at Witely

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 127
  Landfill sites cause big environmental problems. No one wants to live next door to what is in effect a dumping ground for other people’s rubbish. There are so problems for a developed densely populated country like the United Kingdom if all they can do with copious amounts of rubbish is to dig a hole in the ground ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rampant HSR NIMBYism In Palo Alto Council Race

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 560
  Once upon a time, Palo Alto was seen as a leader in sustainable planning in California. City leaders expressed and acted upon support for bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly communities, and backed mass transportation solutions from Caltrain to high speed rail (which the current council backed when they endorses ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cell Tower a case of NIMBY

  
  The Ridgewood Blog — Authority: 488
  In another article found on the Records website, written by Evonne Coutros, Councilman Killion opines: “We’ll just have to find another way to get revenue,” Killion said. “I’m very sensitive to residents and children in the neighborhood. I look at this and say, ‘Would I want a cell tower in my back ...
  8 weeks ago

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