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SAMPLE LETTER
We need your help!
This is only a sample
letter....please write by August 20 voicing your
concerns with an industrial plant in our farmland.
Thank you.
Energy Facility Siting Council c/o Cathy Van Horn
Oregon Office of Energy
625 Marion St. NE, Suite 1
Salem, OR 97301-3742
To the Siting Council:
I am against the construction of the C.O.B. Energy
Facility in the Langell Valley area, Bonanza,
Oregon. The energy facility would take too much land
out of agricultural use. Since they no longer need
the resource of the volume of water available from
the Babson well, let them site their facility in an
industrial location.
Also, and maybe more importantly, I do not believe
C.O.B. should be allowed a permit for the Babson
well even with a lesser amount of water and strict
conditions...if priority is negotiable it is
available to the highest bidder and the body of
Oregon water law is meaningless.*
* "Oregon water law is based on the priority of
water use. The first to put a water source to
beneficial use establishes the first priority to its
use. In the event that the deep water bearing zones
and the more shallow water bearing zones are
connected then they are one aquifer. If they are one
aquifer at least 35 other individuals hold water
right certificates or permits with senior priority
on that ground water source. We know of no Oregon
statute or administrative rule that authorizes a
change in priority by conditioning the permit or
certificate. If priority is now negotiable it is
available to the highest bidder and the body of
Oregon water law is meaningless."
Please consider these items carefully and decide not
to site this energy facility on land that is zoned
for exclusive farm use. Please decide not to issue a
conditional use permit to allow the siting of an
energy facility in an area of agriculture and family
farms. Let this Chicago company find an industrial
area to build their facility. Protect Oregon
resources.
Sincerely,
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