Group launches campaign to overturn Michigan solar siting law

So much time and energy wasted on so much energy and not enough time…

The group [Citizens for Local Choice] is pushing to repeal Public Act 233, which passed narrowly along party lines in November as Democrats sought a way around the bitter local fights that have stalled wind and solar developments in rural communities across the state.

“This is not about whether renewables are appropriate or not,” said Roger Johnson, chair of the Deerfield Township Planning Commission in Lenawee County and a member of the ballot committee’s leadership team. “It’s not whether wind and solar is the answer to issues of global warming. It’s about siting. And Michigan’s tradition has been that villages, cities, townships…deal with land use.”

Michigan’s debate over renewable energy has been highly partisan, with Republican lawmakers uniformly opposing the energy bills Democrats passed in November.

Environmentalists condemned the push to overturn the law. “We must pull together to cut greenhouse gas emissions in all sectors, everywhere,” said Christy McGillivray, political and legislative director for the Sierra Club in Michigan.

tl;dr: NIMBY hubris portrayed as government bullying.