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County asks state to remove designation; Commissioners say energy generation area is unneeded
Along the northern border of Umatilla County, at about the center of the county, the state drew a 400,000 acre box and called it an energy generation area. It includes Milton-Freewater, some of Pendleton, Adams, Athena and Weston.
This week the Umatilla County Commissioners decided they want to ask the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council to get rid of it. ..."It creates a disadvantage in the marketplace when the state leads instead of the county," Mabbott said.
July 19, 2009
by Samantha Bates
in The East Oregonian
Along the northern border of Umatilla County, at about the center of the county, the state drew a 400,000 acre box and called it an energy generation area. It includes Milton-Freewater, some of Pendleton, Adams, Athena and Weston.
This week the Umatilla County Commissioners decided they want to ask the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council to get rid of it.
When EFSC meets at the end of the month, one of its agenda items is "review of the council's legal authorities relating to energy generating areas." At that time the county plans to present a letter asking the council oust the designation.
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