More than 1,000 objections to battery storage sites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg2rje536o
Posted by insomnimax_99
More than 1,000 objections to battery storage sites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg2rje536o
Posted by insomnimax_99
12 Comments
I never know where to store them so I just flush them down the toilet.
Doesn’t seem to matter what it is there’s a campaign to try and stop it.
Was a village in our county that wanted to build a small six child care home and the whole village got together to try and stop the horror of supporting orphans. Very weird people.
I am so tired so very tired of nimbis.
They wants to enjoy the world with modern technology but I do not want to have it near them.
It is utterly exhausting
The objections are really clutching at straws.
It really does go to show that people will object to just about anything and will use any reason they can think of to do so.
Maybe we should have higher taxes for people who want to keep the country in the dark ages.
Oh no…. Batteries!!!
Seriously now. Infrastructure has to go somewhere.
Are people complaining about the power transformer that supplies power to their house, cos there are tens of thousands of those around the country. No? Oh, you don’t say.
Tell them it’ll be a 100 house development instead. See what they prefer..
Local folk objected to the local battery site because it was:
A) on the hillside overlooking the village
B) at risk of flooding
I did try to point out that we have had drainage since the Romans invented it. And if the batteries were flooded, their houses would be completely submerged. And they’re hundreds/thousands of metres from the nearest river and not in a flood risk zone and have never actually had any flooding.
But it seems like that sort of common sense just gets you banned from the conversation…
Or maybe it was pointing out that there was already a similar sized BESS site not far away that is lower and closer to the river which has been around for ages (since before everyone decided batteries and saving the environment was evil and going to set fire tontheir children somehow) and has been masked by trees and bushes and nobody complains about at all.
Literally nimbys should be offered this or that.
The option should never be “nothing”.
If they don’t want a battery farm then swap it for an incinerator.
If they don’t want a SMR swap it for a small coal fired plant.
Not that I agree with the whole aspect of village idiots banding together to subvert progress in critical infrastructure… BUT… it genuinely would he awful to live next to a battery storage site of all things. I dont pretend to know the ins and outs of these types of things however i do know how power stations produce a very audible hum that would drive any person crazy. I’d certainly not want to live near to one.
Great so 68.2 million people didn’t object. Sounds like a frim yes.
Wind, solar, battery storage all need large areas of land so end up in rural or semi-rural areas. Those guys hate it and are generally a bunch of right wing selfish sods with their “help us dodge the inheritance tax the rest of you have to pay” banners and reform posters on the hedgerows. They think important power infrastructure should be built next to poor people and townies.
There were huge objections to a solar farm near me about 10 years ago claiming all sorts of nonsense about visual impact when you can’t even see it! This is exactly the same.
We need a change in planning regulation, a change to the mindset. Moving to a “the answer is yes, the question is how to do it”.
We’re not in a position to be objecting to things like this any more.