By Lena Babaeva Coradini

As alternative energy grows, NIMBY turns green:

Then again, never before has a rare combination of private and government investment pumped so much into alternative energy projects. As these projects grow in frequency and scale, a new breed of NIMBY (not in my backyard) is emerging: Opponents of wind or solar installations who generally support renewable energy, just as long as they are built somewhere else. Coal and nuclear plants, it turns out, aren't the only energy facilities people don't want built in their backyards...or coastlines.

Read the whole article for some notable projects that have recently been subject to NIMBY opposition. Most notable , of course, is the Cape Cod Wind Farm project that has faced a lot of, oftentimes well funded, opposition.