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East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Morning fog;
mostly sunny
Partly sunny
63° 41°
68° 47°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Sunshine
Today
SATURDAY
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Plenty of sunshine
Sunshine
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
62° 39°
61° 41°
63° 43°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
68° 46°
63° 37°
PENDLETON
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TEMPERATURE
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LOW
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82° (1933)
41°
38°
19° (1916)
PRECIPITATION
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Year to date
Last year to date
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0.75"
13.70"
9.48"
9.69"
HERMISTON
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LOW
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62°
80° (1933)
Burns
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6.65"
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SUN AND MOON
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5:54 p.m.
11:55 a.m.
9:22 p.m.
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Klamath Falls
73/32
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Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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winds and heat will roast much of California.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 107° in Fullerton, Calif.
Low 14° in Gothic, Colo.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
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Miami
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Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
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Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
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San Francisco
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Solar energy company makes $1 billion bet on Oregon
JONATHAN BACH
Statesman Journal
SALEM — A national
solar energy company is
betting nearly $1 billion on
an Oregon development
spree, including five new
solar farms in Marion and
Polk counties.
Cypress Creek Renew-
ables, a developer that sells
electricity to utility compa-
nies and already operates
seven solar sites in Oregon,
is building farms near Salem,
Silverton, Gervais, Turner
and Grand Ronde.
Cypress Creek, which
operates in 15 states, has
its largest group of farms in
North Carolina, where more
than 100 are either operating
or
under
construction,
company officials say.
The Marion and Polk
county farms will cover
about 12 acres each,
producing enough energy
to power some 450 homes.
They should be churning out
electricity by year’s end or
shortly afterward, company
officials said. The farms
will sell energy to Portland
General Electric, which will
send it to its utility ratepayers.
The Willamette Valley’s
population density is such
“that solar’s needed in this
area as part of the renewable
energy mix,” said Cypress
Creek spokeswoman Amy
Berg Pickett. “So it’s good to
site solar where the energy is
going to be used.”
Company officials say
they try their best to hire
local workers to build the
farms and believe the proj-
ects will create “hundreds of
good-paying jobs” in Marion
and Polk counties.
In 2016, slightly more
than 4,500 people worked in
solar energy jobs in Oregon,
up 50 percent from 2,999 in
2015, according to the Solar
Foundation, a Washington,
D.C., nonprofit.
Cypress Creek started
working in Oregon in 2014.
Six farms are generating
electricity
in
Malheur
County and one in Deschutes
County. At some of those
sites, the company took
advantage of a taxpayer-fu-
eled effort by state officials
to increase renewable energy
supplies.
During the 2016 session,
Oregon lawmakers approved
the formation of a Solar
Development
Incentive
program to stimulate solar
energy construction. It works
by paying companies half a
cent each month for every
kilowatt-hour of electricity
they produce. Payments
expire after five years.
Under the program,
Business Oregon, the state’s
economic
development
agency, plans to pay Cypress
Creek $2,035,225 for four
of the solar projects in
Deschutes and Malheur
counties. About $246,000
has already been paid.
Otherwise, the agency
isn’t giving the company
any loans or incentives,
spokesman Nathan Buehler
said in an email.
Cypress Creek is also
taking advantage of federal
solar investment tax credits,
which allow the company
to deduct 30 percent from
the amount it’s invested in
a solar project, according to
the Solar Energy Industries
Association.
In September, while
writing to two U.S.
congressmen chairing a
subcommittee on energy and
power, Cypress Creek Chief
Executive Matt McGovern
said, “In Oregon we have 17
projects either operational
or in construction totaling
just shy of $500 million in
investment, with another
$346 million worth in devel-
opment.”
The company also is
building two new projects
in southern Oregon, as well
as two more in other parts of
the Willamette Valley.
“We will not be blan-
keting the state with solar.
No solar company will,
because there’s no avenue
for that,” Berg Pickett said.
At the Cypress Creek farm
just outside of Silverton,
mid-October clouds blanket
the sky — not ideal weather
for a solar harvest.
“Typically, solar farms
generate energy on all
daylight hours, even if
there’s some clouds or
some snow,” Berg Pickett
explained. “The production
would just be less.”
Tribes seek reparations over sacred site destroyed by highway expansion
By STEVEN DUBOIS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Govern-
ment lawyers asked a
federal judge Monday to
dismiss a lawsuit filed by
tribal elders who say a
sacred site was destroyed
to expand a highway near
Oregon’s Mount Hood.
U.S. Justice Department
attorney Ben Schifman
said in a telephone hearing
that the elders were not
substantially burdened by
the expansion of U.S. 26
and lacked standing to sue.
The elders from Yakama
Nation and the Confeder-
ated Tribes of Grande Ronde
claim the Federal Highway
Administration violated the
Religious Freedom Resto-
ration Act. Their attorney
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Stephanie Barclay said the
government in 2008 could
have widened the road
without bulldozing a site
that included a stone altar
and medicinal plants.
Rather than money,
the Native Americans are
asking for a historical
marker, a rebuilt altar and
for the planting of new trees
and plants.
“Even more importantly,
one of the things the plain-
tiffs are asking for in this
case is simply for the judge
to say what the federal
government did was against
the law,” Barclay said after
the hearing. “The federal
government does not get
to destroy sacred sites of
Native Americans with
impunity.”
Judge Youlee Yim You
3 0
will decide whether the
case filed nine years ago
moves forward. She did not
indicate when she will rule.
The Oregon Depart-
ment of Transportation
widened the highway after
receiving complaints about
a dangerous stretch east of
Portland. Residents believed
the addition of a center-turn
lane would increase safety.
Schifman said the Reli-
gious Freedom Restoration
Act does not apply in this
case because the elders have
not been denied a public
benefit or forced to violate
their religion. He said if
every individual were to
have a religious veto over
the use of public land,
nearly all projects would
grind to a halt.
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Though the hearing was
conducted by telephone,
a sizable group of Native
Americans listened in at
the federal courthouse in
downtown Portland.
Plaintiff Carol Logan,
from the Confederated
Tribes of Grande Ronde,
said she worshipped for
decades at the site known as
Ana Kwna Nchi nchi Patat,
or the “Place of Big Big
Trees.”
“This is where our ances-
tors rest, and yet they rip
the soil apart like an open
wound,” she said.
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visit the roadside area.
“No one has been
threatened by federal law
enforcement officers with
any kind of trespass or any
criminal penalty for visiting
the site,” he said.
Barclay said access is
useless when the elements
that made it special are
gone: “It would be like
telling Christians that they
can still access a church
when the walls have been
knocked down and the
remainder has been covered
in a mound of dirt.”
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Eastern Washington: Areas of fog during
the morning; otherwise, mostly sunny
today. Mainly clear tonight.
Cascades: Warm today with plenty of
sunshine; pleasant in central parts. Clear
tonight.
Northern California: Sunny today. Very
warm in central parts; pleasant at the coast.
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MEDFORD (AP)
— The Oregon State
Marine Board is consid-
ering a plan that would
no longer require people
who rent commercial
rafts and kayaks to carry
Aquatic Invasive Species
permits.
The Mail Tribune
reports while raft-rental
companies still would be
required to buy the same
permits to outfit their
fleets, their customers
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny and pleasant
today. Clear tonight, but partly cloudy in
the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Patchy fog
in the morning; otherwise, mostly sunny
today.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Increasing cloudiness tonight. A shower
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TILLAMOOK (AP)
— Highway 101 through
Tillamook has reopened
after 5 inches of rain shut
down part of the road
and caused flooding that
damaged cars and forced
at least one business to
close.
KGW-TV reports that
the Tillamook County
Sheriff’s Office says the
mountains got 10 inches
of rain and the Wilson
River rose 5 feet above
flood stage at the storm’s
height.
Flooding is common
in the area during heavy
winter rains, but authori-
ties say events like these
typically don’t happen
this early in the season.
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WORLD CITIES
John Day
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Ontario
62/33
40°
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20° (1935)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
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Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Albany
68/42
Eugene
66/43
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
63° 40°
Spokane
Wenatchee
59/40
58/40
Tacoma
Moses
64/39
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 62/37
62/42
65/47
64/40
65/34
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
66/42
64/44 Lewiston
61/37
Astoria
65/42
67/45
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
69/45
Pendleton 63/37
The Dalles 63/37
63/41
64/39
La Grande
Salem
64/40
69/43
Corvallis
68/43
HIGH
62° 41°
Seattle
64/46
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
64° 38°
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
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