Can Obama Achieve Oil Independence?

[mgb_phys]

Time to get rolling already. But what's the solution to NIMBY?

Bribery - would you like to pay no sales tax, would you like a 1000 new jobs.
Threats - alternatively we could build a 4Gw coal fired station, of course it would mean a few 1000 trucks a day carrying coal through your small village.
USEBY - (use somebody elses backyard) let the French build the power stations and buy the power from them.

 

[russ_watters]

Bribery is how landfill companies do it and they don't have anywhere near the money of a nuclear plant construction project, so I don't see that adding a significant cost to nuclear plant construction.

 

[mheslep]

Bribery is how landfill companies do it and they don't have anywhere near the money of a nuclear plant construction project, so I don't see that adding a significant cost to nuclear plant construction.

 

[russ_watters]

There was a 60 Minutes piece about this a few years ago, but googling "landfill benefit residents" gives you a lot of good hits:

KEKAHA — Concerned citizens packed the Kekaha Neighborhood Center Monday night to begin a long-term discussion on how the residents should spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars they will receive from the county as compensation for the existing landfill outside of town.

Kekaha will receive a $650,000 upfront “host community benefit” for housing the soon-to-be-expanded landfill, and will continue to receive annual funding, potentially as high as six figures each year, based on how much tonnage of rubbish is brought to the Westside facility, officials said.

In trying to help the community decide how to allocate those funds, the county proposed the idea of a 13-person Citizens Advisory Committee.

http://savekauai.org/waste-%2526-recycling/kekaha-residents-bandy-landfill-benefits

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A practical note: Today I received my first request ever [for engineering services] from a wind power company.

I've been wanting to go up one of those