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Article: Neighborhood resistance is biggest hurdle facing Bush energy policy.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- May 1, 2001
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WASHINGTON _ The Bush administration's new energy policy, which calls for 1,900 new electric power plants, 38,000 miles of new natural gas pipelines and lots more electric power lines, faces one major obstacle: We the people.
Americans want more power, now. But they don't want more power lines, power plants or gas pipelines anywhere near them.
Power companies and policy makers call a person who resists a "NIMBY," as in "Not In My Back Yard." A hard-line NIMBY is a BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone) or simply a NOPE (Not On Planet Earth.)
Whatever the name, experts say community resistance has done more than environmental ...