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Oppose generating facility
published April 25, 2003
Thank you for the great article on the front page of the Sunday Herald and News. There are dozens of farmers and probably hundreds of residents of Klamath County who are opposed to the siting of the Peoples Energy of Chicago's California-Oregon Border energy facility in Bonanza.
This out-of-state company comes into an area like ours thinking it will find little resistance.
We are trying to fight this issue but we are not being heard.
We have attended meetings and written letters.
The response we have gotten in the last few days is that the letters do not get to the elected officials. For example, we wrote to the governor and were told not to write to him but to write to the Siting Council of Oregon Department of Energy because the letters get forwarded to them. So our new governor says he didn't know that anyone in Bonanza or Klamath County was opposed to the siting of this power plant, which will take wonderful well water and use it to cool the towers for the process of generating electricity for California.
The company will use it and reuse it until all that is left is sludge, which it will have to truck to a dumpsite. Wow. It is turning well water into landfill - just what we need.
The company is siting this industrial facility in an agricultural area - taking land out of exclusive farm use.
We need to stand together to oppose the siting of this facility.
Lyn Brock
Melyn M. Brock
Bonanza
Thank you for the great article on the front page of the Sunday Herald and News. There are dozens of farmers and probably hundreds of residents of Klamath County who are opposed to the siting of the Peoples Energy of Chicago's California-Oregon Border energy facility in Bonanza.
This out-of-state company comes into an area like ours thinking it will find little resistance.
We are trying to fight this issue but we are not being heard.
We have attended meetings and written letters.
The response we have gotten in the last few days is that the letters do not get to the elected officials. For example, we wrote to the governor and were told not to write to him but to write to the Siting Council of Oregon Department of Energy because the letters get forwarded to them. So our new governor says he didn't know that anyone in Bonanza or Klamath County was opposed to the siting of this power plant, which will take wonderful well water and use it to cool the towers for the process of generating electricity for California.
The company will use it and reuse it until all that is left is sludge, which it will have to truck to a dumpsite. Wow. It is turning well water into landfill - just what we need.
The company is siting this industrial facility in an agricultural area - taking land out of exclusive farm use.
We need to stand together to oppose the siting of this facility.
Lyn Brock
Melyn M. Brock
Bonanza
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