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Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY's analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

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[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I see, the oil and coal lobby, who would have thought

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

Cozied on up with Nimbys.

Nimbys are truly Karen's in their final form.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

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