Electricity transmission towers on a corn field in Santa Maria, Bahia state, Brazil, on May 9, 2018.
Photographer: Dado Galdieri/BloombergLatin American Land Owners Are Fighting to Keep Power Lines Out
Now that the region’s biggest economies have access to power, a new NIMBY movement is creeping in.
Gilson Denardin always hated the towering transmission lines crisscrossing his farm in northeastern Brazil. So when he caught wind of plans to put up two more sets of wires, he decided to put up a fight.
“It’s awful,” said the owner of 7,400 acres of farmland in Brazil's Northeast. “My land loses its value with so many power lines.”