Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mschuster91 242 days ago
> Who opposes Power lines?

A LOT of politicians. Here in Germany, SüdLink got massively delayed and 8 billion euros more expensive because the back-then regional governor and edgelord Seehofer, who later rose to federal Interior Minister, caved to NIMBYs and insisted on burying the cables which is now feared to negatively impact the farmland soil [2].

> As a foreign influence I'd be delighted to target all infrastructure proposals and bombard it with trolls.

That already happens. Germany's far-right AfD, that regularly protests against everything related to the adaptation of the electricity grid, has had a multitude of scandals involving Russian influence.

[1] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/streit-um-stromtrassen-k...

[2] https://www.wochenblatt-dlv.de/feld-stall/betriebsfuehrung/e...