To the Editor:
Regarding Rick Mellerup’s column (“NIMBYs Are the Main Obstacle to Green Power,” 11/10), I confess I’m a YIMBY, Yes In My Backyard. I want to have a vertical axis wind turbine. The regulations on the Island won’t permit it. There’s a 5kW wind turbine manufactured in Wisconsin and I’m all for it. I would even erect it in my front yard for virtue signaling.
Rick’s first paragraph is a terrible swipe at folks who don’t desire certain projects because of a multitude of reasons, but he paints them…
November 17, 2021
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