The vote was unanimous! Coos County holds the equivalent energy potential of billions of barrels of oil under the ground in wind resource. So local leadership pulls some general information off the ODOE website, calls a few other cities for ‘due diligence’ and without speaking to industry experts says no to wind. They may have well said no to methane, or oil, or heaven forbid, LNG because they are cutting themselves out of the energy market and cutting off badly needed funding for the area.
Presumably, the city will work with Patty Gouveia and Jody McCaffree to help write an ordinance but one has to ask the question. In the absence of any applications for wind, why are they now lit up to ban wind? What is the rush to judgment all about?
