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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by danmaz74 on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:24AM (#47972082)
Funnily (or tragically?) enough, lots of environmentalists here in Italy are opposing solar and wind projects too. I find that crazy.
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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by lostlogin on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:51AM (#47972882)
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.

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by snovv_crash on Friday May 01, 2026 @06:08AM (#47972988)
NIMBY != Nuance
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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by williamdclt on Friday May 01, 2026 @06:58AM (#47973290)
Reducing every personal reason to oppose every specific project to "NIMBY" is not nuance.
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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by snovv_crash on Friday May 01, 2026 @09:30AM (#47974616)
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.

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by lostlogin on Friday May 01, 2026 @10:45AM (#47975389)
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.

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by snovv_crash on Sunday May 03, 2026 @11:38AM (#47998018)
Do any of those people have gold jewellery or gold-plated contacts on their electronics?
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