[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY, ENCROACHMENT: Oregon wind farm OKd

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon drops opposition to big Oregon wind farm

By Scott Learn
The Oregonian
April 30, 2010

Under heavy political fire, the Pentagon has dropped its opposition to 
the huge Shepherds Flat wind energy farm in north-central Oregon, a 
decision that brings construction jobs, royalties and taxes to two 
counties that badly need them.

The Pentagon, at the urging of the Air Force, had stopped Shepherds Flat 
because of concerns that 338 towering turbines planned in Gilliam and 
Morrow counties would scramble radar signals from a station built 
outside Fossil in 1958.

On Friday, Oregon Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden  and Jeff Merkley  and U.S. 
Rep. Greg Walden,  R-Ore., announced the Pentagon had agreed to allow 
the project, the largest in the United States, to go forward.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/04/air_forces_drops_opposition_to.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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