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Sounds so much more realistic than putting up new lines. I imagine that replacing the conductors doesn't need environmental review and NIMBYs can't go to court
by briandw 3y ago
Sounds so much more realistic than putting up new lines. I imagine that replacing the conductors doesn't need environmental review and NIMBYs can't go to court to stop an existing project.
- zbrozek 3y agoIf they're estimating costs up to 50% of building new corridors to reconductor existing ones, it seems pretty likely that wading through an enormous amount of nonsense is involved.
- barryrandall 3y agoTo the NIMBY, any change is an opportunity to obstruct.
- coldtea 3y agoAnd to the FISEBYWAYNIMBYCA (Fine In Somebody Else's Backyward, What Are You NIMBIs Complaining About?) any change is fine since they're not affected...
- blurri 3y agoYeah thats not a thing.
- coldtea 3y agoIt's very much a thing. It's common for people to look down upon NIMBY protests concerning stuff others would have to put up with. "I, myself would totally welcome it, see" - never mind that the things that they scold others for not accepting, are things planned for nowhere near their backyard, so their openess conveniently wont be put to the test. Most of the talk down of NIMBY protesting comes from such types, not from people local to the projects/changes that do welcome them.