However thoughtless generalization is never good; whatever the concept of 'NIMBYism' may be, somewhere there's a real person with a real backyard they're just trying to hang onto a little longer, or make a little better. And unlike the rest of us, they live right there.
Apparently, by some poster's way of thinking, we should have kept the Lakeview Station out in Mississauga burning coal until replacing it was so cheap, and the damage from the coal smoke so unmistakable that even a NIMBY in the Preem's office would sign onto whatever project, just to get rid of it. Too bad the low cost business case the 'free-of-politics' independent operator did gett underway wasn't loathsome enough. Because it was the cheap option.
The idea of choosing the best people to make the best decisions for all in the first place, even if they cost us a few bucks, is apparently a non-starter. In the context of this thread the equivalent anti-thinking would be leaving the Sugar Beach site empty, an undeveloped lot to be sold to the highest bidder. While the workers next door parked their cars on it.
Doing stuff costs.
