Comment on Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built

Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Former President Donald Trump often denigrates wind and solar power in his speeches. In December in New Hampshire, he said, falsely, that wind farms only last 10 years, that they kill “all the birds,” that solar energy isn’t powerful enough to run factories and that wind is 42 times more expensive than natural gas.

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  “It’s going to change our lifestyle and the landscape and everything around here,” he said.

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  The opposition sometimes leads to surprising arguments about property rights, in which some landowners invoke concepts like a claim to a “viewshed” – views they want free of wind turbines or solar panels. These opponents clash with others who champion a different view of private property rights, saying landowners should be free to build what they want.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see, the oil lobby, who would have thought

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    • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cozied on up with Nimbys.

      Nimbys are truly Karen’s in their final form.

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok. I want to be free of sky scrapers. Ban them. Remind me again why my opinion about this doesn’t matter.

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    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A lot of places do have limits like that. Plus style choices in the building codes.

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• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oil companies

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