Our Klamath Basin Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
Our Klamath Basin
Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
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1/9/04 Oregon
Department of Energy has just released the Draft
Proposed Order (available at
http://www.energy.state.or.us/siting/cobdpo.pdf
) recommending that the Energy Facility Siting
Council "find that reasons justify allowing the
proposed use to remove ... farmland from commercial
agricultural production." It states that the
"applicant must still show reasons justifying why a
goal should not apply..." Now
they only require 210 gallons per minute for
industrial use.
We still object to them using
ground water for this process when they could use
wastewater or surface water. More importantly,
though, from a legal perspective, is that they no
longer need to be located at this site. They no
longer need access to this well which produces such
a great quantity of water. The Department of
Energy's draft recommends they are allowed their
exception. Based on Oregon law, we would argue that
they should not qualify for a Goal 3 exception. |
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