I’ve read that they are having the same problem with a huge wind farm that is being built in the eastern part of the state. They are having trouble getting environmental approvals for the transmission lines, and without the environmental approvals, they can’t get permits. The CEO said, awhile back, that they were at least ten years away in the approval process. Not exactly what you call a shovel ready project.
I should have said ‘inertians’ not ‘environmentalist’. Even though they call themselves environmentalists, their ideas have nothing to do with any real environment, its more about what they have experienced in 4 acre zoning with a clean well and septic field, and a pool off the side of the house... They want to keep their yard with a vista of trees which give the illusion of more privacy that they really have. They are suburban inertians. I am not saying that it is not the good life, it is. In America it has been heavenly, but it not what you can use for a foundation of any real understanding of the environment.