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June 2, 2009

Wind power action may start moving to public lands in NW

  • In Oregon and Washington, 18 testing applications have been approved for public lands, and 31 test towers are up.
    • By MATTHEW PREUSCH
    The Oregonian

    FIELDS, Ore. — Anchored among clumps of sage and purplish lupine, the guy wires of a solitary weather tower thrum with wind heading in a hurry toward Idaho and Nevada.

    “They say that in the summer it shouts, but in the winter it screams,” Elon Hasson said of the wind on southeast Oregon's Pueblo Mountains.


     
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