6h ago

How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon

www.propublica.org

What those lawmakers didn’t plan for was that 50 years later, an Oregon citizen activist would use that same bureaucracy to hinder some of the very energy projects that today’s liberals want: wind farms and the new high-voltage lines needed to support them.

They didn’t plan for Irene Gilbert.

The 76-year-old retired state employee, former gun store owner and avid elk hunter from La Grande, Oregon, is on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape. She has filed more challenges to energy projects — 15 in all, including lawsuits — than anyone in the state, according to Oregon’s Department of Energy.

“I kind of have a reputation,” Gilbert said.

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8h ago

How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon

www.propublica.org /article/irene-gilbert-oregon-solar-green-energy-policy

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She has lead poisoning and mercury poisoning, I'd bet money on it
If she were really worried about objects blighting the landscape of la grande, that one super obvious confederate flag that can be seen from the highway (that I assume is still tacked up in a trailer window) is probably a good place to start.
- She probably put it there.
  
  Hate, not heritage.
We need to find a better green energy. It takes so much petroleum to make and maintain solar panels and wind farms. If the energy industry actually thought these were viable solutions they would be everywhere. I'm not just going to complain about it I'm going into electrical manufacturing and I'm going to do my best to fix it
Edit: thank you all for telling me off. It was needed. I'm still going to work to fix the energy industry someday though 😋
- Maybe when you get out of school you’ll come back here and apologize for your ignorance.
  
  I'm already sorry. But again it's something I'm going to fix
- They would be everywhere
  Oh you sweet summer child
  
  Thank you. I don't think I've ever been called that before. I understand my ignorance but I have to work on that first before I can fix anything
- The fuck have you been smoking?
  
  Weed
- It takes so much petroleum to make and maintain solar panels
  I have solar panels on my house and have spent exactly zero petroleum (or carbon at all!) to maintain them. They have also allowed me to disconnect my natural gas connection and heat my house in the winter with electricity.
  
  I hope to do something similar someday but it still cost petroleum to make them. I'm envisioning an alternative. Wind turbines do cost petroleum to maintain. You have to lubricate them. But I don't see why we can't lubricate them with something more environmentally friendly
- That's why I think home wind and solar are the answer, combos if necessary. Solar is getting way better and everyone maintaining their own system would be great. They already make lots of products that could do this. People just have to have battery set ups, and batteries are getting much better too.
  
  Unfortunately wind doesn't have nearly the same room for growth or cost benefits at small scale. Noise, maintenance requirements, and size/intrusiveness mean it's not really an option at residential scale.
- Aww, no fun allowed

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