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

Technology@lemmy.world – 448 points – 5 months ago

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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Are you kidding me? I opened the article in order to find reasons for banning but after like reading 10min, I gave up, it is such a repetitive article with so many useless words.. Has someone a TLDR?

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.

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

Cozied on up with Nimbys.

Nimbys are truly Karen's in their final form.

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

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

Oil companies