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Oregon schools deny moratorium on wind turbines
Oregon City Schools will have next spring to study bird migration patterns at Clay High School, Eisenhower Middle School, and Coy Elementary before midsize wind turbines are operating on those grounds.
But the district last week did not agree to a three-year moratorium on operating six turbines that the Black Swamp Bird Observatory near Oak Harbor has been trying to secure.
December 15, 2010
by Julie M. McKinnon
in Toledo Blade
Oregon City Schools will have next spring to study bird migration patterns at Clay High School, Eisenhower Middle School, and Coy Elementary before midsize wind turbines are operating on those grounds.
But the district last week did not agree to a three-year moratorium on operating six turbines -- part of a $7.3 million, two-phase project to increase educational research and supply electricity -- that the Black Swamp Bird Observatory near Oak Harbor has been trying to secure.
Clay already has had a small-scale, 25-kilowatt turbine on its campus for two years that has produced 25 percent more electricity than expected. Under a... [continue via Web link]
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