[danmaz74]

Funnily (or tragically?) enough, lots of environmentalists here in Italy are opposing solar and wind projects too. I find that crazy.

[lostlogin]

There is a lot of nuance to these situations.

Destroying a whole valley for hydro is something locals could easily oppose. Similar with huge solar farms. You can be a proponent of a technology but anti a particular project.

[snovv_crash]

NIMBY != Nuance

[williamdclt]

Reducing every personal reason to oppose every specific project to "NIMBY" is not nuance.

[snovv_crash]

They specific example GP gave was locals being opposed to something. That is textbook nimbyism.

Happy for other examples that would demonstrate nuance, but that isn't it.

[lostlogin]

That would be part of it for sure.

Locally there is opposition to gold mining. People in the region oppose it and with a broad definition of ‘NIMBY’ you’d be right. But neighbouring valley, town, region etc is a broad definition.

[snovv_crash]

Do any of those people have gold jewellery or gold-plated contacts on their electronics?