16 Sep NIMBY Neck – going Dutch

Jeff Pinhey suggests Nova Scotia take a page from the “IMBY syndrome” he observed on while riding the Train à Grande Vitesse from Paris to Amsterdam.

The Dutch, who arguably know as much about windmills as anyone, choose to put their power generating ones in places where there already is a lot of background noise:  along a train line and urban freeway.  This is one of what must have been 20 that followed the rail line. Probably can’t even tell they make a noise here.

I find it puzzling that we seem to be forcing our windmills into areas as remote as possible, where the noise issue is considered to be a proverbial tree falling in the forest type of concern. How about all along the BiHi by BLIP?  Sure is windy there. Noisy too. Or out by the refinery—nice juxtaposition of new and old energy sources… maybe up in the tank farm.

“The Dutch… know as much about windmills as anyone.” Is that an ethnic slur? No, but “Going Dutch” probably is.