Comment by pjc50

Every new construction is always unpopular with locals. Farms smell. Businesses produce traffic and emit noise. Oil and gas annoy people for miles around with flaring. Heck, even pro-social ventures like pubs serving the local populace get complaints from other members of the local populace. This only gets mitigated by the social factor after something has existed for a long time.

Personally I like seeing renewables, big or small, cleanly producing energy for us to use. It's a small pro-social signal about environmental responsibility.

(my pet local hate, recently remediated after years of complaints from a twenty mile radius: Mossmorran flaring by Exxon-Mobil https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-5... )