Re:German environmental groups file objection against Tesla ...
by CRConrad on Sunday June 13, 2021 @02:19PM
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> I simply view this as a free speech issue. Anyone can object to anything for any reason and that’s OK.
As long as they do so by just generally exercising their free speech, sure. I got the impression the problem with the German Greens is that they go beyond this.
> It’s only going to be obstructionist when they have a point.
No, it's far more obstructionist when they don't have a point, and still protest not only in a general participating-in-the-debate fashion but by lodging formal complaints in various municipal and regional environmental-protection processes, over shit they know (or should have known) is irrelevant / insignificant / impossible. "Gumming up the works" for no real reason. And that's the impression I got from comments up-threads of what (at least many of) the German Greens are doing.
Filling out some paperwork is dramatically less expensive, thus individual groups allocate their funds based on their objectives. And of course anyone can call themselves an environmental group, many of them care more about NIMBY than the environment.
Honestly, I simply view this as a free speech issue. Anyone can object to anything for any reason and that’s OK. It’s only going to be obstructionist when they have a point.