How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon

Decades ago, she’d married into a ranching and timber family, and a chunk of the forest she owned was bulldozed for a transmission line. She blamed the line when she couldn’t get the timber to grow as she wanted.

“It keeps my brain working,” she said with a laugh.

Proposals for new wind farms kept cropping up, and she contested as many as she could, even ones three hours from her home.

“She calls herself a redneck environmentalist,”

Fucking delusional idiot

Edit: As a note Oregon is in year 24ish of a drought. The transmission line is not causing her trees not to grow. Drought and soil degradation caused by logging is causing the trees to grow slower. It's an industry wide issue. The big players like Weyerhauser have responded by harvesting more at once and smaller trees.

And then you get this stupid shit as justification:

The company that owned Kinzua, the timber town where she grew up, razed it without a trace after shutting down operations in 1978.

So because a lumber mill company town that she lived in closed the town she's going to nuke rural jobs? First the mill closed because the company that owned it didn't want to pay to upgrade the mill to take in smaller trees. Mills are built to process trees of a certain size. That's what closed a lot of the mills in the 70s and 80s. Not the god damn spotted owl. Corporate greed that threw away small logging towns to save a buck shipping the logs to mills further away rather than upgrading the older mills to process smaller trees. Second does she think that these small towns are going survive with nothing? No she doesn't think because she's a geriatric dipshit with lead brain.

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Well she doesn't want power. Someone should disconnect her house I suppose.
Decades ago, she’d married into a ranching and timber family, and a chunk of the forest she owned was bulldozed for a transmission line. She blamed the line when she couldn’t get the timber to grow as she wanted.
“It keeps my brain working,” she said with a laugh.
Proposals for new wind farms kept cropping up, and she contested as many as she could, even ones three hours from her home.
“She calls herself a redneck environmentalist,”
Fucking delusional idiot
Edit: As a note Oregon is in year 24ish of a drought. The transmission line is not causing her trees not to grow. Drought and soil degradation caused by logging is causing the trees to grow slower. It's an industry wide issue. The big players like Weyerhauser have responded by harvesting more at once and smaller trees.
And then you get this stupid shit as justification:
The company that owned Kinzua, the timber town where she grew up, razed it without a trace after shutting down operations in 1978.
So because a lumber mill company town that she lived in closed the town she's going to nuke rural jobs? First the mill closed because the company that owned it didn't want to pay to upgrade the mill to take in smaller trees. Mills are built to process trees of a certain size. That's what closed a lot of the mills in the 70s and 80s. Not the god damn spotted owl. Corporate greed that threw away small logging towns to save a buck shipping the logs to mills further away rather than upgrading the older mills to process smaller trees. Second does she think that these small towns are going survive with nothing? No she doesn't think because she's a geriatric dipshit with lead brain.
- She seems happy and balanced.
Ignorance kills the wrong people
I think the article makes clear that she is not the real problem. She has every right to do this, and if the state doesn't like it, they should adjust the laws.
It's good that citizens and environmentalists make themselves heard against big business interests. If they have too much power, the legislature should correct that. But I'm not going to blame an old environmentalist for not choosing to shut up.
Do better, government.
Exactly the way industry treats regular protesters asking for change. Why is this news? We need less Irenes, and more clean energy projects.
I bet she's compostable.