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The heavy wind woke Niria Garcia about 5 a.m. It whipped against her home, leaving her restless as she fitfully tried to get a little more sleep.
“Something doesn’t feel right,” Garcia thought to herself.
On that day last September, a devastating fire ripped through Southern Oregon, whipped by those very winds that woke Garcia, a Xicana climate activist based in Talent, a town of about 6,500 people. Three people would die and more than 2,800 homes and other buildings would be destroyed by the fire.
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Oregon State University wave energy project gets federal go-ahead
Jes Burns
Federal energy regulators gave Oregon State University the go-ahead Monday for a groundbreaking wave energy testing facility off the coast of the state.
The PacWave South project is designed to facilitate and speed up the development of wave energy technology, which harnesses the motion of the ocean to generate electricity. Oregon is considered to have a high potential for wave energy generation much higher by coastal area than Washington or California. The Oregon Department of Energy says near-shore wave energy project alone have the potential to power 28 million homes annually.
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Put green to use on green energy
It’s good to hear that David Anderson of NW Natural is looking to the future. Too bad he is just focused on his company’s future profits. No one wants to see his customers (me included) freeze. We just want his company to stop trying to add more gas-dependent customers by building more pipelines.
NW Natural shouldn’t act like all those buggy-whip manufacturers that ignored the future and went out of business. It should think like the ones who innovated and stayed in business.
As Anderson knows, climate change is real, and responding to it is inevitable and urgent. Natural gas is not a bridge to the future. NNG Financial Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of NW Natural, should take those pipeline dollars and spend them now on investment in true green energy while it can make a difference.