Sunday, July 3, 2011
National Public Radio
The Pacific Northwest is suffering from too much of a good thing — electricity. It was a snowy winter and a wet spring, and there’s lots of water behind the dams on the Columbia River, creating an oversupply of hydropower. As a result, the region’s new wind farms are being ordered to throttle back — and they’re not happy. Read full story here
Friday, July 1, 2011
East Oregonian
In the minutes after Umatilla County commissioners made their decision to approve tougher requirements for wind turbines, some people celebrated.
Others proclaimed it would be the end of the wind power business in Umatilla County. Read full article here
Thursday, June 30, 2011
East Oregonian
In the decision to change wind siting rules Tuesday, the Umatilla County Commissioners did something new and unique: They quartered off an area with tougher restrictions, essentially keeping wind turbines out of the Walla Walla River watershed.
In the law, it says the area is “subject to additional
standards.”
Read full article here
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
North American Wind Power
Legislators in Oregon voted to drastically revamp the state’s Business Energy Tax Credit (BETC), a program that has helped spur the state’s thriving renewable energy industry. H.B.3672, which passed by a large majority in both the Oregon House and Senate, limits the amount of money that renewable energy projects can receive. Read full article here
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
A victory years in the making was handed down by Umatilla County Commissioners on Tuesday.
Commissioners Dennis Doherty, Larry Givens and Bill Hansell, in a
series of three separate votes, changed existing rules and creating
new ones regarding where and how industrial wind turbines can be
built.
Read full
article here
Tuesday, June 24, 2011
East Oregonian
After years of work and months of meetings, the Umatilla County
commissioners approved changes to the county's rules deciding where
and how wind farms can be built. Commissioners voted just before 5
p.m., after yet another daylong meeting of debating and hearing
testimony.
Read full article here
Saturday, June 25, 2011
East Oregonian
The Helix Wind Power Facility may go ahead with plans to build up to 134 wind turbines, the Energy Facility Siting Council decided Friday.
The council voted unanimously to approve an amendment to
Iberdrola Renewables’ site certificate for the Helix project with
little discussion.
Read full article
here
Saturday, June 25, 2011
AP
The Bonneville Power Administration is proposing two transmission
line upgrades in Washington and Montana that would deliver 3,200
additional megawatts of electricity, including 1,900 megawatts of
wind power.
Read
full article here
Thursday, June 16, 2011
East Oregonian
Of the 70 people crowded into the media room at the Umatilla County Justice Center on Tuesday, the majority seemed to be standing against wind development.
But they didn’t account for everyone. A few came
representing wind companies, including attorney Elaine Albrich, with
Stoel Rives of Portland.
Read full
article here
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
East Oregonian
Cindy Severe sat in front of the Umatilla County Board of Commissioners and held up a thick stack of papers. She and other residents had taken to the streets and gathered signatures, asking people to sign off on a two-mile setback between wind turbines and rural homes. Read full article here
June 13, 2011
LaGrande Observer
Are wind turbines the symbols of salvation for cash-starved rural counties, or disfiguring cancers on the landscape? Baby steps to wean an economy off fossil fuels, or menaces to public health and property values? It may depend on who you ask. Read full article here
Sunday, June 12, 2011
East Oregonian
On Tuesday, the Umatilla County Board of Commissioners will hold another meeting analyzing possible changes to the rules allowing wind farms in the county.
The board has spent three previous meetings pouring over the changes proposed by the planning commission. Read full article here
Saturday, June 11, 2011
East Oregonian
The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals has asked the Morrow County Court to take another look at its decision regarding the Willow Creek wind farm and its neighbors.
The court ruled in January that the 48-turbine
project near Ione exceeded the state’s noise control rule at one
nearby home. It gave Invenergy, the project’s parent company, six
months to comply with the rule.
Read complete article here
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Beaverton Valley Times
It’s getting tougher to site new wind developments in Oregon, according to the folks at Horizon Wind Energy. As evidence, they point to a three-foot stack of application documents for their $600 million Antelope Ridge project in Eastern Oregon, piled on the floor of their downtown Portland office. Read full article here
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
La Grande Observer
Got mail? If you’re one of 1,000 randomly-selected Union County
residents, you’ve got a survey, too.
Eastern Oregon University sponsored and sent out the mailings last
week to conduct a survey regarding the proposed Antelope Ridge Wind
Farm on Craig Mountain.
Read full article here
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Energy Prospects West
American Wind Energy Association leaders at a conference in Anaheim last month called for a long-term extension of the production tax credit and a national renewable-energy standard. Read full article here
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
The New York Times
IN April, Gov. Jerry Brown made headlines by signing into law an ambitious mandate that requiresCalifornia to obtain one-third of its electricity from renewable energy sources like sunlight and wind by 2020. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia now have renewable electricity mandates. President Obama and several members of Congress have supported one at the federal level. Polls routinely show strong support among voters for renewable energy projects — as long as they don’t cost too much. Read full article here
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Energy Prospects West
A group of landowners in Montana have opened a new legal challenge to the recently enacted state law that allows transmission developers to use eminent domain to seize property needed for transmission projects.
On May 21, a group of landowners in Pondera and Teton counties filed
suit in Teton County District Court against the state of Montana and
Tonbridge Power Inc., the developer of the Montana Alberta Tie line,
claiming the state's recently approved eminent domain law is
unconstitutional.
Read full
article here
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Crooks & Liars
In the article, click on "Eric Cantor Doubles Down on using Disaster Victims as Hostages to Spending Cuts" to see the video of Cantor speaking the vile words. Read full article here
Friday, May 20, 2011
The East Oregonian
The Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council reluctantly agreed to forgo a contested case against the proposed Helix Wind Power Facility at a meeting Wednesday. Read full article here.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The East Oregonian
Dave Price lives 4 miles north of Athena. From his home's picture window, he can see wind turbines two miles away. Read the full article here.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Cascade Insider
The Oregon Senate Committee on Finance and Revenue recently passed SB 863 which allows electric utilities to increase the amount of funds available for low-income assistance programs. Read full article here.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
The East Oregonian
Commissioners took another look at the rules for how to setup wind
farms in Umatilla County. This latest round of changes lowered
the wind turbine setback from two miles to one.
Read the full article here
Sunday, April 17, 2011
The East Oregonian
Editorial
Mother Nature has dumped tons and tons of snow in the mountains
of Oregon and in the headwaters of the Columbia River in Idaho and
Montana. Above snowpack exists in many places.
Read full article here
Friday, April 15, 2011
The Oregonian
Under pressure from wind developers and investor-owned utilitiesaround the region, the Bonneville Power Administration this week backed away from a plan to start pulling the plug on wind power when it has too much water and wind energy at the same time. Read full article here
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Oregonian
General Electric operates the Bigelow Wind Farm near Rufus. Wind developers and utilities such as PGE oppose a Bonneville Power Administration plan to curtail wind farms during periods of high water and high wind-energy generation. Read full article here
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Oregonian
Pacific Northwest wind-power producers are battling a proposal
that could force them to periodically shutdown their plants in the
months ahead, potentially costing them million dollars in lost
revenue.
Read full article here
Monday, December 23, 2011
Wenatcheeworld.com
Editorial
Saturday, December 21, 2011
Oregonlive.com
Opinion
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The Oregon Catalyst
Sunday, July 10, 2011
East Oregonian
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Saturday, July 2, 2011
The Oregonian
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
East Oregonian
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
East Oregonian
Sunday, June 26, 2011
East Oregonian
Sunday, June 26, 2011
East Oregonian
Sunday, June 26, 2011
East Oregonian
Saturday, June 25, 2011
East Oregonian
Saturday, June 6, 2011
Energy News Data
Sunday, June 19, 2011
East Oregonian, Editorial