BONANZA (COB) proposed power 
                                plant
                                Peoples Energies Resources (COB) 
                                plan to build a multimillion$ power plant in 
                                Langell Valley, Oregon, in the Klamath Basin.  
                                It will use an untested aquifer, but the 
                                government is giving the  Chicago-based 
                                company rights above and priority to the 
                                generations of farmers that applied for permits 
                                up to 11 years ago.  Read how our community 
                                feels about this infliction that disregards 
                                public input, and economic well-being:
                                
              
                    
                    
                    
              
                    
              
                    
                    
                    
              
                    
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                Peoples Energy announced 
                                they are terminating the COB energy site in 
                                Bonanza, 
                                2/2/07.
                                
                  
                  
                                This is antelope feeding on the Bonanza 
                  farmland where the COB power plant proposes to locate. Over 30
                  farmers
                                have not been allowed permanent permits to pump 
                                their wells, yet 
                  this multimillion $ company
                  will have water priority. Please help save our rural 
                  community.  
                  
                                
                  
                                PLEASE SIGN PETITION
                                
                  
 Here is the link to view 
              the 184 page amendment to the COB application:
              
              http://www.energy.state.or.us/siting/document/cobamt.pdf
                                
                  
                                
                   TESTIMONY and 
                  BRIEFS
                                
        * 8/14/04 "Final 
        briefs for the contested case argument against COB in the Langell Valley 
        location, by Save Our Rural Oregon. All of the Klamath County 
        Commissioners and the Klamath Falls City Council members who will be 
        voting on the extension of the enterprise zone have been given copies of 
        these documents (delivered to their offices August 13th) as soon as they 
        were filed with the State of Oregon today.  Oregon State Representative 
        Bill Garrard has publicly stated that he would now vote against this , 
        given all of the circumstances he was not aware of at the time (ie: EFU 
        land, etc)."
        * 
                  Information Bill Brock presented to May 14, 2004 meeting at 
                  Bill Garrard's "House Interim Committee on Land Use". 
                  First is his speech, followed by information: Power 
                  Distribution Problems in the Northwest, and A PROPOSAL FOR 
                  CONSIDERATION BY THE OREGON STATE LEGISLATURE
        * Lyn 
                  Brock's speech May 14, 2004 to House Interim Committee on Land 
                  Use Review, followed by Brock's meeting notes.
        *
        Comments to the 
        Oregon Department of Energy and the Oregon Facility Siting Council on 
        the COB Energy Facility Draft Proposed Order, posted to KBC 2/17/04 
        from Roger Hamilton, past Klamath County Commissioner.
        
        
        *
        Testimony to be heard on Cob 
        facility, Friday,  at 8am, H&N 2/12/04  Go 
        HERE for more on proposed COB energy plant.
        
                  
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            Klamath County 
            Commissioner Steve West's testimony to the Dept of Energy 
            regarding the COB plant in Bonanza, posted to KBC 1/29/04.
        *
                  Comments to 
                  the Department of Energy siting council by geologist Gail 
                  Hildreth Whitsett . They are opinions formulated from data in the COB draft 
                  proposal, January 22, 2004
        
                  * 
                  Comments to the Dept of Energy siting council by Lyn Brock, 
                  Bonanza, Oregon 1/22/04.
        *
            Dr. Doug 
            Whitsett's testimony to the Department of Energy regarding the 
            proposed COB power plant in Bonanza, 1/31/04
                                
                                  
                                    
                                      
            If you have questions or concerns, 
                                    please call Lyn Brock at (541) 545-1205 | 
                                    
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            Will Oregon lose their legal control over the 
            water from these wells? 
            COB will have 3 BIG wells which might 
            produce 24,000 gallons per minute. 
            Is water which costs $10 here for irrigation worth $15,000 in Las 
            Vegas or LA as I've been told? 
            Would Federal law supercede state law for interstate commerce on 
            sale of water? 
            Please help us  Stop the COB  by contributing to:Save Our 
            Rural Oregon, P O Box 436 Bonanza, OR  97623  | 
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                            Peoples Energy announced they are terminating the 
                            COB energy site in Bonanza, 
                            2/2/07.
                                
              
                    
                    
                    
                        COB comment deadline 
                      12/15  
                        Here for COB page.
                                
          
                    
                    
                    Demand driving 
          purchase of Cob plant, H&N 11/10/06. 
          COB info by Lyn Brock 11/11/06. 
          Comments due Dec 15!
                                
              
                      
                      COB proposed energy plant 
                      in Bonanza, meeting 11/8/06
                                
           
                    
                    
                    
                      COB comments by Oct 17
                                
           
                    There is a COB meeting at 
                    the Ross Ragland Theater, 218 N. 7th Street in Klamath 
                    Falls, about the Japanese buying the COB permits on November 
                    8th, at 7 p.m.  
                    
                                
        
          
                    
                      
                    Hearing set on COB plant 
          permit, Herald and News, 
          posted to KBC 10/10/06. (KBC Note: we missed the meeting but you can 
          still send comments)
          
                                        
                      
                      COB proposed energy plant 
                    in Bonanza, meeting 11/8/06 
                    about the Japanese buying the COB permits
                                
                                         
                    
                    
                    Cob plant may be sold 
                    before it’s built, 
                    Japan-based company wants to 
                    buy the plant Natural gas facility. 
                    H&N 10/12/06 
                    
                    
                                
                                
                                        
                                        (COB power plant)
                                        
                                        Threat to water supply, H&N, posted 
                                        to KBC 1/17/06
                                
                                  
                                    
              
                 William 
                Kennedy owns and operates Lost River Ranch, 
                which has had a 40,000-acre 
        
              
                private 
                wildlife 
        
              
                refuge 
                since 1975 as part of Operation Stronghold. He is 
                also past president of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association. | 
                                    
                                    
                New power plant not 
                such a good deal by 
                Bill Kennedy, guest columnist, H&N,
                posted to KBC 1/5/06
                "...While 
                extreme green groups have blasted our community over perceived 
                threats to our wildlife, there has been absolutely no 
                consideration of the impact of an 1160-megawatt gas-fired 
                generator on several thousand acres of designated wildlife 
                refuge. The small footprint for the proposed power plant is very 
                close to private lands that are designated by their landowners 
                as refuge for migrating wildlife." | 
                                  
                                
          
        County finalizes 
        Cob plant tax deal, posted to KBC 12/15/05 H&N
          
              
                      COB tax-exemption issues vote, meeting for 
          input 12/13/05
          
          These documents will be presented to the Klamath County Commissioners on 
        Tuesday morning December 13th at the Commissioners office on Main Street 
        at 10 am. for them to vote on.
          
              COB advertised jobs and earnings 
              grossly exaggerated
              
              
              Expansion of enterprise zone for COB
              Agreement with county 
              regarding COB funds has changed  
              
              
              Agreement for Long-term Rural Oregon 
              Enterprise Zone Exemption 
              (this agreement has not previously been made available for public 
              viewing before the vote on Tuesday the 13th. 
                                
          
        Cob tax deal 
        hearing scheduled, H&N 11/30/05
          
          Update on "Stop the COB" 
          Activities 11/21/05 by Lyn Brock
          
          
        Court's power plant decision 
        fails on real issues, COB letter by Bill Brock posted to KBC 
        10/16/05
          
          Court 
          upholds ruling on Cob, posted to KBC 9/30/05
          
        COB energy plant 
        update and invitation 7/22/05
          
          
        County goes with Cob's offer, H&N 
        4/20/05
          
          
        State high 
        court to hear farm rights suit COB proposed power plant in 
        Bonanza 4/19/05. 
          
        Bill would give 
        public more say on power plants, bendbulletin 4/3/05. "He 
        (Rep Bill Garrard) said that concern was solidified when the state 
        didn't respond to his letter about a controversial plant proposed near 
        Bonanza in Klamath County." 
           
          
            
                      
            Energy Facility Siting hearing in Salem 
                      
            4/1/05
          
        
        In bed with Chicago firm, 
        H&N letter by David Misso 3/29/05
          
        $149 million 
        in refunds demanded from Peoples Energy, Breeze - Courier posted to 
        KBC 3/28/05  "The Chicago Sun-Times 
        reported last month that the lunch occurred just days after a utility 
        watchdog group filed paperwork with the ICC demanding $149 million in 
        refunds from Peoples Energy for alleged overcharges to Chicago-area 
        cnsumers."
          
        
        Greed rules county, H&N 3/10/05.
        "Along comes Cob power plant offering millions to the county."
          
        
        Anti-Cob initiative tossed, 
        H&N posted to KBC 3/10/05
          
        
        Water and Power 
        by Pat Ratliff, Klamath Courier March 9 2005 issue. "An important 
        point to remember, and one that Scottish Power, PacifiCorp’s parent 
        company does not recognize, is that PacifiCorp receives value from the 
        water in the lake stored by the Project.  Having the ability to use the 
        water spread out over time, and to a degree when they want it, and not 
        just as it runs through the system, is of definite power making value."
        
        COB should give 
        percentage of power to Klamath, Brock 3/8/05
        
        
        
        City OKs enterprise zone for 
        Cob plant, 
        H&N 3/8/05. 
          
                      
                      Mar 7 COB City 
        Council meeting
          
        
        
        Cob wins enterprise zone OK, 
        H&N 2/26/05 "Brown 
        said that in a survey he handed out at a meeting in Lorella, 96 percent 
        of people who returned surveys were opposed to the enterprise zone."
        (In Owens Lake, the city of LA sucked the lake dry, destroying the 
        farm community and ecosystem; a dust bowl remains. The country was 
        appalled. In Klamath County, the town sees dollar bills, allows a 
        multi-million dollar power company to waltz in, buy water rights that 
        are senior to those of ranchers who still have not been given permits to 
        pump their own well, the city extended the zone to accommodate the 
        facility, and they don't have to pay the taxes like the farmers and 
        ranchers. And one more drain on our aquifer has bought their way into 
        our rural community. The testimony says it will pollute our air. This is 
        one more sad blow to our countryside, and it is being done by our own 
        town. KBC)   
          
          
        Your Constituents Do Not 
        Want a Power Plant in Their Backyard!!! by Lyn Brock, 
        Bonanza, Oregon 2/24/05
          
        Answer to Cob tax offer 
        expected, H&N posted to KBC 2/24/05
          
          
        STOP THE COB Public Hearing 2/24/05
          
        COB plant supporters 
        wrong, H&N letter posted to KBC 2/11/05.
          
          
          COB Energy Feb 1 Meeting...A 
          Review 2/2/05 by Lyn Brock. "I 
          would like to explain to Mr. Elliott that 'inappropriate' water usage 
          might be when this corporation came recently to our area and applied 
          for water rights ... that many farmers in Bonanza have prior water 
          rights, that we have been told that current data shows that due to 
          stream flow and water levels, we will probably NOT be allowed to 
          irrigate our crops from OUR wells after approximately July 4th of 
          every year." 
          
          
          
          Officials offer Cob tax ideas, H&N 2/2/05.  
          
          
          County 
          to open Cob debate to public Tuesday, 
          February 1. Please go and BE INFORMED!  See 
          COB 
          page for testimonies and past articles.
        
        
         90 attend COB meeting 
        in Lorella, by Lyn Brock 
        1/27/05. "One lady stated that if this is a 
        profitable venture then this corporation should be able to pay their 
        assessed taxes." "It seems 
        that residents of this rural agricultural area are tired of hearing 
        about mitigation and, instead, desire assurance that their elected 
        officials are protecting their way of life and their means of making a 
        livlihood." 
        
                                
        
        
        
        
        Deadline set on Cob tax offer, 
        H&N 1/27/05 
        "The 
        proposed 1,150- to 1,160-megawatt natural gas-fired plant has been 
        especially controversial among Langell Valley residents, who say plant 
        developers are getting unfair access to water."
        
        
        
         Local business owners speak in 
        favor of Cob, H&N 1/26/05
        ("This article does not 
        tell you that, at the previous Commissioners meeting, the opponents of 
        COB were not allowed to speak and were told that they could only talk at 
        the Public Hearing on February 1st.  So they didn't attend the January 
        26 meeting- - Lyn Brock")
          
        
         People have 
        impact, H&N 1/25/05 regarding the COB proposed power plant. More on 
        COB go HERE
          
        
        
        Cob rep to meet with Langell Valley 
        residents,
        H&N 1/24/05.
          
          
          COB meeting Lorella 1/26/05 Q&A
          
        
        
        County to consider tax 
        breaks for Cob, H&N 1/17/05. 
        
        Will COB Energy Facility be 
        granted a huge ($71,000,000) tax break? Lyn 
        Brock... Meeting tomorrow January 18.
          
                      COB public meeting 
                      2/1/05
        
        
        
        Cob backers make new tax offer, 
        H&N 1/19/05.
        
        
        
        Klamath 
        Board of County Commissioners for January 18, 2005 included discussion and consideration of the COB power plant, 
        by Lyn Brock 1/18/05
                                
        
                                
                                
        
        Trio pushes for measure to limit 
        Cob funding, 11/12/04 H&N.
        
        State Panel OK's COB, 
        H&N posted to KBC 11/8/04. 
        "We've been sure for a long time that this is the 
        decision the state wanted (the Siting Council) to make, regardless of 
        the evidence," she said."
        
        Siting council 
        hears long arguments on Cob plant, H&N 11/04/04.
        
        COB Energy Facility:  Hearing and final 
        action on the application for site certificate November 3rd. Please 
        Come!
        
        Cob site decision next week, 
        H&N 10/28/04.
        
        
        County commissioners 
        shortchanged those who wanted to be involved on energy plant, Herald 
        and News 9/22/04. " 
        because of the lack of timely input from the county commissioners, 
        Klamath County residents were deprived of the support of their 
        representatives and were essentially hung out to dry."
        
          
        
        Water's too short, H&N 
        posted to KBC 9/14/04. "It 
        is my opinion that the agencies and others pushing the power plant could 
        be sent to the Department of Justice because they made such a mess of 
        the contested hearing. Cathy Van Horn is pushing from the Oregon 
        Department of Energy, which, in my opinion, has bent over backward to 
        accommodate the power plant...."
          
        
        Bonneville Power 
        Administration says Cob can plug in, 
        H&N 9/10/04.
          
        
        Developers of Cob power plant 
        underhanded about intentions, H&N 9/7/04.
          
        
        Council takes a tour of Cob site, 
        H&N 8/30/04.
          
          
        
        Cob plant backers stumble badly, 
        H&N editor's views, 8/26/04
          
          
        Reject tax 
        relief for Cob, H&N posted to KBC 8/26/04.
          
        
        County silence on Cob criticized, 
        H&N 8/25/04. "Commissioner 
        Steve West, who has been involved in the contested case process as a 
        private citizen, said he is appalled that commissioners missed their 
        formal chance to help set the rules."
          
        
        Cob facility appoints new 
        spokesman, H&N 8/25/04.
          
        
        Full-page ad on Cob 
        power plant a fabrication, H&N posted to KBC 8/24/04. "The 
        power plant's developers would like us to believe that a $600-million 
        facility that generates $71.3 million in property tax revenue for the 
        state, should pay only $15 million in lieu of property tax. We are 
        supposed to believe that we should give up $3.75 million dollars a year 
        because the Cob power plant will be "a good corporate neighbor."
          
          
        Get mad, stop COB plant H&N 
        8/20/04. "This 
        huge energy corporation wants to build the Cob power plant in the 
        heartland of Langell Valley. It's bending every rule in the book to 
        accomplish that. Adding insult to injury, Peoples Energy also wants to 
        pay no property taxes for the first 15 years."
          
          
        
        Ex-commissioner files revised ballot measures, posted to KBC 8/18/04
          
          
        KF Council uneasy about Cob 
        proposal, posted to KBC 8/18/04. 
        "In order to get this done, 
        we're talking about leapfrogging an enterprise zone out to Bonanza," 
        power plant opponent Stan Heidrich said. "It's appalling, and I can't 
        believe all the rules are being bent."
        
        Get the taxes due, 
        H&N posted to KBC 8/16/04
        
        
            "Do you really want a huge corporation 
            from Chicago, the COB power plant, to come into rural Klamath 
            County, against our community's wishes, and receive a $71,000,000.00 
            (seventy one million dollar) tax break?"  Meeting Monday--HERE 
            for information.
        
        Three judges bow out 
        of Cob decision, H&N posted to KBC 8/16/04
          
        Water for 
        Life's final document in the matter of the application for a site 
        certificate for the COB energy facility (also given to all five 
        Klamath Falls City Council members, Jeff Ball and all Klamath 
        County Commissioners on August 13, 2004. Posted to KBC 8/15/04. 
        
        Two 
        commissioners wrong, H&N posted to KBC 8/15/04. "To even consider 
        trading $71.3 million for $15 borders on insanity..." More articles 
        and testimonies on COB, go HERE.
        
        Cob tax 
        petition ruled as invalid, H&N posted to KBC 8/15/04.
          
          Don't 
        take a chance, H&N 8/9/04.
          
          
        Ex-commissioner moves to block Cob, H&N 8/9/04.  "A 
        representative for Cob has asked the county to grant the power plant $71 
        million in property tax breaks over 15 years, in exchange for a payment 
        of $1 million a year in lieu of taxes." Go to 
        the COB page for more input from our 
        community on the proposed siting.  (Why do you, the energy 
        companies and licensing board, ask our opinions, then disregard our 
        wishes and concerns? We have spoken, but you do not hear. Where is the 
        justice? KBC)
          
          
        Wrong place for powerplant, 
        H&N 8/4/04. "Very few people in the region want a power plant in 
        Langell Valley, especially the people in Langell Valley, Bonanza, Poe 
        Valley, and, from what I have heard, most of the people in Klamath Falls 
        do not like the idea of it either."
          
          
        Want some manure?  H&N 
        8/4/04. "When 
        I moved to an "exclusive farm-zoned area," the last thought on my mind 
        was the need to protect myself from people like you who think you can 
        push your unwanted pollution-producing industrial plants into farming 
        communities because we do not have the population to stop you."
        
                                        Recent articles regarding 
                                        the proposed COB energy  plant, 
                                        posted to KBC 8/1/04:
                                        Take 
                                        it or leave it, H&N
                                        
                                        Bargain hard, then build the Cob plant, 
                                        opinion by Tim Fought, H&N editor
                                        Why give 
                                        up tax revenue, H&N
                                        
                                        Taken for a ride? H&N
        
                                        
                                        It's 
                                        about water, Letter to Editor, H&N, 
                                        7/27/04
          
        
        Langell Valley 
        wrong place to put proposed power plant, H&N 7/26/04.  
          
                                        
                                        
                                        Cob seeks 15-year tax-free deal, H&N 
                                        7/23/04.  
          
          COB gets grid 
        approval H&N 7/12/04.  
          
        
        House panel hears Cob foes, 
        H&N 5/17/04.   
        COB was blessed, 
        H&N 5/5/04, "DEQ 
        staff members tried to circle around the question by saying proposed 
        emissions met the air quality standards, but, eventually, they finally 
        did admit that these air emissions could affect children with asthma and 
        older adults with possible breathing problems later on in life."
          
          Give it to Klamath 
        Falls, H&N letter 4/5/04, regarding the COB 
          proposed power plant in Bonanza. 
                                
        
        
        Cob Energy Facility deadline nears 
        H&N:  
        "People 
        who have been active in fighting the Cob Energy Facility have until 
        Friday to apply for official status in a state hearing on the power 
        plant." For more COB articles, go
        HERE.
        
        Energy plant dangerous H&N 4/1/04.
                                
        
        Short-sighted on jobs, H&N 3/29/04, regarding the tax-exempt COB 
        plant being located in Bonanza against the residents' wills.
                                
                                  
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            Government decides on basis of 
            dollar signs, not what's best,
            by 
            Lynn Brock, H&N letter 3/22/04  " 
            "With spring just around 
            the corner, Klamath basin farmers should be planning what to plant. 
             With water rights on more than 30 wells uncertain and the Oregon 
            Water Resources De-partment three years behind in making decisions 
            on the certificates, most of those wells no longer have a 
            permit....Yet the state's Department of Energy is recommending a 
            permit for an out-of-state industry to get its permit."  | 
                                    
                                     
                                    
              
                                    Lynn Brock  | 
                                  
                                
        
        Tell company what it can do with 
        new power plant, 
        H&N 3/14/04 "The Peoples Energy of Chicago tells us this huge plant - 
        25 acres of roof area and 40-plus acres of polluted wastewater ponds, 
        33,000 gallons of ammonia, tanks full of diesel fuel, other oils and 
        chemicals, is safe. It also tells us that in 1999, Hawthorne unit No. 5 
        in Kansas City, Mo., blew up."
        Build it at Red Bluff, 
        H&N 3/14/04. Regarding the COB energy plant: "Officials 
        elected to office are supposed to represent the people that voted them 
        in."
          
          
        Fight generating plant, 2/19/04 H&N
        
        
        
        No decision on Cob plant, H&N 
        2/17/04. 
          
        
        They aren't listening, 
        H&N posted to KBC 2/17/04. Regarding the COB plant in Bonanza,"There 
        appears to be overwhelming opposition - a landslide you might say - by 
        the people" 
         "When 
        pressed repeatedly, however, he finally made it known that they didn't 
        have to listen to the public and probably would not. So much for 
        government for the people and by the people." 
          
        COB neighbors 
        opposed, 1/29/04 Article by Lyn Brock. 
        KBC (jdk) COB 
        comments: Parts that we have concern with are; this is one of the 
        largest power plants in the world on one of the
        largest faults, 
        about 99% of the neighbors oppose it, COB is a multimillion 
        dollar, tax-exempt company, the roads and services like 
        the fire department are not equipped to handle this magnitude of traffic 
        or disaster, in the EPS report it states that forage animals may not eat 
        the crops grown on the waste-water run-off fields, the
        aquifers are probably 
        connected, and many local farmers have waited for years and are 
        still waiting to be given permanent well pumping rights, yet COB has 
        been given priority to the local peasants. See
        COB page for past articles and reports.
                                
          
        
        
        Story sound familiar? H&N 1/26/04
          
          Views differ 
          on power plant, 1/23/04 H&N.
          
          Capital 
          Press,  Energy plant shouldn't go 
          up on farm-zoned land, 1/23/04,
          
          COB HEARING NOTICE FOR 1/22/04
          
                                
                                Last chance hearing for COB plant, 
                                by Gail Hildreth H&N, posted to KBC 1/16/04.
          
          COB plant gets 
          permit, 1/11/04
          
          People's energy hopes to put the COB plant near Bonanza 
          at the dismay of many local residents. The following article magnifies 
          their horror at the proposition: 
          "CUB 
          Seeks $110 Million Refund For Peoples Gas Customers, Says Company 
          Overcharged Consumers During Record Price Spike." posted to KBC 
          1/9/04
          COB energy Facility Draft 
          Proposed Order, from the Oregon Dept. of Energy posted to KBC 
          1/9/03 Also is a note by 
          Lyn Brock, Bonanza regarding the Order.
          
          
          A new source of pollution, 
          H&N 1/16/04
          
          Thursday, January 22, 2004
          Klamath County residents will have their only opportunity to 
          participate in the final Oregon Department of Energy hearing regarding 
          the construction of the California Oregon Border 
          (COB) 1160 Megawatt gas fired electrical generating facility to 
          be located east of Klamath Falls. 
          Go HERE
          
          
          COB plant gets permit, 1/11/04 H&N. 
          
          People's energy hopes to put the COB plant 
                near Bonanza at the dismay of many local residents. The 
                following article magnifies their horror at the proposition:
                
                "CUB Seeks $110 
                Million Refund For Peoples Gas Customers, Says Company 
                Overcharged Consumers During Record Price Spike." posted to 
                KBC 1/9/04
                COB energy Facility Draft 
                Proposed Order, from the Oregon Dept. of Energy posted to 
                KBC 1/9/03 Also is a
                note by Lyn Brock, 
                Bonanza regarding the Order.
          
State says Cob plant should be 
approved, H&N 12/31/03
          
          
          Initial state review of Cob 
          plant delayed, H&N,12/24/03
          
  Proposed power 
  plant unwanted, 12/27/03, Oregonian.
          
          
                
                Langell Valley 
                wrong place for plant, and it's not even needed, regarding 
                the proposed COB power plant, 12/22/03 H&N. 
                "We asked the 
                Oregon Department of Environmental Quality how it set the limits 
                for allowable amounts of hazardous pollutants and were told that 
                the limits are based on amounts which would not harm a normal, 
                healthy adult. Of course, he stated, this might cause health 
                concerns for young children, the elderly, and those who already 
                have health concerns, such as the local citizens who have asthma 
                or are on oxygen for other conditions." 
                See COB for more 
                info and articles.
          
          In 
            the State of Hypocrisy, speech by Gail Hildreth 11/25/03 to the 
            Klamath Falls Planning Commission. "In a state that already has 
            the most stringent requirements for land use in the United States, I 
            have to ask myself, the planning commission, and all those in 
            attendance here, why the state of Oregon is in the process of 
            further restricting our individual private property rights. 
            ...Meanwhile, the state of Oregon and Klamath County are allowing, 
            uncontested, the siting of the largest gas fired electrical 
            generating facility in the western United States, in a strictly 
            zoned Exclusive Farm Use agricultural area just east of Klamath 
            Falls."
          
          Emissions Appalling, 
            H&N posted to KBC 11/25/03
          
          
          Energy 
          plant threat to rights, H&N 11/13/03
          
          
          No breads for COB plant, 
          H&N 10/30/03.
          
          Contaminant 
            Discharge Permit for COB Energy Facility, LLC Written comments due: 5 p.m October 
            27, 2003
          
          Second amendment filed for Cob 
          energy facility, 10/26/03 H&N
          
          
            Less pollution is more than 
            Langell Valley wants, 10/22/03, H&N.
           
            "Within these standards, 
            there are still people that could be affected," he said, adding that 
            elderly people, small children or people with lung problems could be 
            susceptible to higher pollution levels. "They're out there on the 
            edge of the bell curve." 
            
            Written 
            comments on the DEQ permit must be submitted by 5 p.m. Monday 
            to be considered by the department. A permit could be approved or 
            denied in as little as two months.  
          
          
          
                            Proposed Standard Air Contaminant 
                            Discharge Permit for COB Energy Facility, LLC, 
          10/21/03
          
          
          
          Public hearing set on Cob Energy Facility, H&N 10/20/03
          
          Proposed power plant near 
          Bonanza should create concerns about air quality, 10/03.
          
        YOU GOT $, YOU GOT WATER! "This proposed 
        permit would allow the COB facility to move ahead of over 30 other water 
        permits waiting to be finalized by eastern Klamath County residents and 
        farms."  
        see story
          
        
        
        Cob opponents bring in speaker, H&N 8/14/03
          
          Herald and News correction 
          regarding article on proposed COB plant, which took statement by Doug 
          Whitsett out of context: 
          
          
          -Priority a concern The article referred to is 
          
          HERE.
          
          
          It's lose, lose, H&N 8/5/03
          
          
          COB plant proposal received, H&N July 29, 2003
          
        
        Bonanza area not any place for large generating plant, H&N 7/14/03
                                
                                Klamath County 
                                Commissioner Steven West opposes COB plant in 
                                farmland, 7/7/03
                                
                                
                                
                                Cob plant faces hurdles before completion, 
                                H&N July 3, 2003.
                                
                                
                                
                                Residents testify against COB plant, H&N's 
                                June 29, 2003 - "LORELLA - About 50 people 
                                crowded into the Lorella Community Hall on 
                                Friday afternoon to talk about the proposed Cob 
                                energy facility, a 1,150-megawatt power plant 
                                that might soon be constructed just down the 
                                road from this small community nine miles 
                                southeast of Bonanza."
                                
                                
                                
                                Taking a look at power facitily site, H&N 
                                June 29, 2003
                                
                                 
                                
                                Try other sites, Letter to the Editor of the 
                                H&N's - June 26, 2003 - Written by Fabian Baker 
                                of Bonanza -  "If I had wanted to live in a 
                                buffer zone next to, or in, an industrial area, 
                                I would have purchased land in Klamath Falls. 
                                But I didn't, and I don't want to."
                                
                                
                                
                                Is plant justified, H&N June 19, 2003.
                                
                                "This plant being 
                                considered for the Bonanza area will use a huge 
                                amount of our natural resource (water). How come 
                                the environmentalists are not complaining 
                                loudly?"
                                
                                
                                Ex-official, unions differ on COB plant, H&N 
                                June 13, 2003. "Roger 
                                Hamilton, a former Klamath County commissioner 
                                and advisor to former Gov. John Kitzhaber on 
                                energy and water issues, spoke out against the 
                                proposed COB Energy Facility at a public hearing 
                                Thursday night in Bonanza."
                                
                                What you can do to help stop the  COB, 
                                June12, 2003.
                                
                                MOVE THE COB! 6/11/03
                                
                                
                                COB plant gives up on water, H&N 6/11/03.
                                
                                Stop the C.O.B., June 10, 2003.
                                
                                
                                COB 
                                Energy Plant Use of Groundwater, by Doug 
                                Whitsett, President, Water for Life, Inc., May 
                                9, 2003.
                                
                                Help stop the 
                                COB Energy Plant in Langell Valley!  
                                by Cindy 
                                Deas, May 16, 2003
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                How will the proposed COB plant in Bonanzo get 
                                around Oregon Law?, H&N Bill Brock, 5/25/03
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                Keep the water, H&N letter by Nancy Roeder, 
                                Klamath Falls. "It is difficult 
                                for me to comprehend that a public agency would 
                                rob the farmers of necessary water to grow their 
                                crops to site a breeder electrical facility. 
                                This facility will be, of course, smack dab in 
                                the middle of farm land."
                                
                                
                                
                                Power Plant application completed, H&N 
                                4/30/03.  
                                
                                
                                
                                Oppose generating facility, H&N Letter by 
                                Lyn and Melyn Brock, Bonanza. 4/25/03. 
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                Power Plant approved in spite of local 
                                opposition, H&N 4/23/03 
                                
                                
                                
                                MONEY TALKS!  
                                Bonanza irrigators can't pump the 
                                irrigation wells they had to drill, yet a 
                                Chicago power company may be pumping 7.7 million 
                                gallons of water per day!  What gives!? H&N 
                                4/20/03