
Don’t Let NIMBYs Kill Green Power
NIMBY local pols and naysayers wrecked the housing market in Massachusetts. Now, they’re threatening to do the same thing with the state’s new clean energy industry unless Beacon Hill can stop them.
NIMBY local pols and naysayers wrecked the housing market in Massachusetts. Now, they’re threatening to do the same thing with the state’s new clean energy industry unless Beacon Hill can stop them.
Brookline Town Meeting is scheduled to vote tonight on an article that would ban many new gas hookups and oil-fired boilers in the city.
The Baker administration is on board with pursuing additional renewable energy procurements that would double the amount of possible offshore wind power in Massachusetts, enough to provide roughly a third of the state’s electricity demand.
Climate change, in the form of rising sea levels, threatens to literally wash away tens of billions of dollars in new development, and environmental activists are part of the problem.