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I am glad to read that not everyone has been lured into believing these wind farms are our salvation.  As one who moved to Eastern Oregon just because of the quietude openness and wildlife that DOES abound here.  People in the valley think there is nothing here but sagebrush and rattlesnakes.  There are those and much more.  I will be directly impacted more than most when the 300 wind turbines are built and not beneficially.  My husband and I will be directly downwind of that project and will have all the noise and visual effects from them!

I have attended the meetings of more than one company and project that we would and will be affected by and have heard all of the propaganda of how wonderful and "green" they are and how many jobs they will create.  I have been lied to my face by some of the representatives and I have seen the health of neighbors decline due to have a windfarm placed operating almost on top of them.  Depending on where and what size generators these companies plan to build, they follow either county or state rules and most of the counties and the state, for that matter, don't have much in guidelines to go by.

As another writer has already mentioned, the companies I have had to deal with are LLC's, which means limited liability, so in the contract they state the will dismantle any wind turbine when required.  Well, if it costs as much to tear down as to build, what do you think?  At a rate of 25% efficiency, maybe maximum of 30%, I wouldn't want to be a line manager at a manufacturing plant with that kind of efficiency.  And no, we still have to have an energy producer that is reliable such as dams, coal, natural gas, etc.  They have pushed as fast and hard as they can for the federal and state dollars.

What we really need to think about is conservation of all of our resources.

posted 1 year, 12 months ago
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