Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
BUCKLEY
CENTENNIAL
WIND FARM
MEETING
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Buckley displays the plaque she received from President
Obama in honor of her centennial. -Photo by Andrea Di Salvo
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now—she did some work
keeping a lunch room and
restrooms clean for potato
harvesters.
She lives now at the
Willow Creek Terrace in
Heppner, where family and
friends gathered last week
to celebrate her birthday.
Family flew and drove to
Heppner from around the
country to be with Buck-
ley during her milestone
event. Even the government
took notice of her birthday;
Buckley received a plaque
from the White House in
honor of the occasion.
“There were so many
people here,” she says, “I
still don’t know who all
was here.”
Terrace staff member
George Naims shares that
Buckley apparently used to
have a beer for lunch every
day; one highlight o f the
party was when some of
Buckley’s nephews brought
along a Hamm’s to share
with the birthday girl.
“She said it didn’t taste
nearly as good as it used
to,” Naims says.
When asked about the
greatest changes she has
seen in the last 100 years,
Buckley says there have
been, “Quite a lot...elec
tricity, all this computer
business.”
“ I t ’s certain ly been
an interesting time,” says
Buckley.
“ I w o u ld n ’t h av e
dreamed all these people
would show up.”
has been working on this
project for four years now,
and was not sure when
the project would be com
pleted. He said Invenergy is
currently looking for utili
ties to sell the power to on
a 15- to 20-year-long term
contract.
Contacted later, Mark
Lovgren, who owns a home
at Blakes Ranch, said he is
not happy with the wind
farm going in so close to
the community.
“The people at Blakes
Ranch bought property in
the mountains for peace and
quiet and for the scenery,
and that would all be taken
away from them if this goes
through,” he said.
He said he spent most
of the year 2002 building
his own home at Blakes and
doesn’t want to see all he
has worked for taken away
from him.
“They (the develop
ers) don’t care if it mins
your view; that is not part
o f their consideration,”
Lovgren, who used to work
for Columbia Basin Electric
Co-op and has done electri
cal infrastructure consult
ing to utility companies,
said of the wind develop
ers. “Building my home at
Blakes Ranch was a dream
1 had, and that dream will
be taken away if this facility
is built.”
In addition, Lovgren
said wind power is driven
by tax breaks and laws
passed requiring utilities to
buy “green” energy, and not
by market forces.
“The federal and state
governments are subsidiz
ing wind power, and rate
payers in utilities like PGE
are paying higher electrical
rates to pay for all of this,”
he said.
Lovgren said the tow
ers cost $2 million each to
put up and that in 20 years
they are going to have to be
all taken down at a cost of
$1 million each.
“What kind of energy
source is that?” he asked.
“1 don’t fault the land-
owners,” Lovgren said of
the people having the tow
ers put on their property.
“They are making $1,000
per month on each tower;
o f course they are going to
take that.”
On the future o f this
project, Lovgren would
only say the residents of
Blakes are going to be look
ing at everything. He said
there are human health is
sues and wildlife damages
that they are going to be
looking at.
“ We are going to be
with this the whole way,”
he said.
The m e e tin g last
Wednesday was only in
formational; there will be a
chance for public input later
in the project.
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Wednesday, July 18,2012
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Heppner honors
234th for work
Heppner City Manager Dave DeMayo (left) and Mayor Les
Paustian (second from right) stand with representatives of the
234,k Engineer Company of the Oregon National Guard during
a ceremony honoring the Guardsmen for their work around
the community. The National Guard members received the
Golden Shamrock for their contributions to city and county
parks and other facilities. The 234'h also recognized several
local businesses and individuals for the help and hospitality
they provided to the company during its stay here. -Contrib
uted photo
Morrow Pacific to
seek air permit
In early 2012 the Mor
row Pacific project applied
for an Air Contaminant
Discharge Pemiit (ACDP)
from the Department of En
vironmental Quality (DEQ)
for the Port of Morrow stor
age location. In February
2012, DEQ determined an
air pemiit was not needed
due to several factors, in
cluding the fact that the
facility would be enclosed
so negligible em issions
would result from storage
piles and transfer points.
DEQ has now revised
that opinion and has re
quested a permit applica
tion. DEQ’s decision dis
counts the storage buildings
and enclosures in making
emission calculations find
ing “uncontrolled” em is
sions to be in the range
of 16 to 83 tons per year.
With control measures, the
project calculates emissions
at less than 2 percent of the
permit threshold.
As stated in a letter
received from DEQ to the
Morrow Pacific project on
July 16, 2012:
In our first review of
the application. DEQ did
not account for any uncon
trolled emissions from the
temporary storage of coal
at the facility. This was an
oversight because the plans
include buildings with vents
and scrubbers that will con
tain, control, or otherwise
prevent fugitive emissions
from coal storage piles that
would typically occur with
out the buildings in place.
Furthermore, the primary
purpose o f the buildings
appears to be to prevent
fugitive emissions.
DEQ agrees that “con
trolled” emissions from the
facility will most likely not
exceed the levels provided
in the application, which
were approximately 200
pounds per year of PM 10.
“We understand DEQ’s
revision and will immedi
ately resubmit a request for
an air quality permit,” said
Clark Mos«kMJicesi4&.'nt
and CEO oTmSkfaMLw
Pacific project. “Due to our
control methods, including
the storage buildings, vents
and scrubbers, we are con
fident we will contain fugi
tive dust well below permit
levels. We’ve designed this
project to virtually elimi
nate dust.”
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