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March 17, 2009
BLM and Oregon Sign Agreement on Wind Project Siting
The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Oregon Department of Energy signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate wind project siting on federally owned lands. The agreement provides for joint environmental review of proposed projects by both agencies under state and federal legal requirements.
As suitable private land for wind projects becomes harder to find, BLM land is the next logical home for significant wind power development in the state. This agreement should make the process of developing projects on federal land easier, faster, and more predictable.
Post authored by David Petersen, partner practicing in the Sustainability and Real Estate and Land Use Groups.
Comments
I can't believe it! We have so little land use left for free rangeing animals, now you want to take up more with wind machines. How do you think the last few wild horses will feel with the huge whirring machines on the only sparse grazing they have left? Put one in your own back yard. Leave the last visual beauty we have left alone. This is NOT what this land was set aside for.
Posted by: Mary Fishburne | April 20, 2009 4:14 PM