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Unfortunately I suspect this idea is somewhat dead-on-arrival… anti-renewable people will fight it for obvious reasons, while environmentalists will fight it due to concerns over shading the waterways.

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What's the fallacy called where you oppose something based on the fact that it has impact on something, not realising that the alternative is is even worse?

I see people talk about how ugly solar panels make mountainsides, but when I ask "would you prefer a coal factory there instead?" nobody would.

That’s the nirvana fallacy. And it gets used VERY often against renewables.

Why would environmentalists be concerned about shading canals?

They're concerned about nuclear so...

Because you’re changing something about the environment, and we can’t have that until it’s been studied to death.

The canal is already made of concrete, I think the environment might have been a little altered already.

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