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Sun Aug 17, 2025, 08:21 PM Aug 17

How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon [View all]

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76-year-old Irene Gilbert has filed 15 challenges to energy projects like wind turbines — more than anyone in Oregon, according to the state’s Department of Energy.

“I kind of have a reputation,” Gilbert said.

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How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon
Irene Gilbert is a 76-year-old retired state employee on a mission, fighting energy projects like large wind farms in Oregon’s rural communities. Renewable energy advocates and lawmakers treat…
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August 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM

76-year-old Irene Gilbert has filed 15 challenges to energy projects like wind turbines — more than anyone in Oregon, according to the state’s Department of Energy.

“I kind of have a reputation,” Gilbert said.

With @opb.org

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imagine having all that time on your hands and choosing to do THAT Skittles Aug 17 #1
Reprehensible piece of crap ...hurting everyone with her stupidity and arrogance JT45242 Aug 17 #2
So called "renewable energy" has nothing to do with fighting greenhouse gases. NNadir Aug 17 #4
While I know this won't be happily received here, I applaud her efforts to protect wilderness from development. NNadir Aug 17 #3
Renewable energy is seeing massive growth that nuclear cannot hope to compete with. VMA131Marine Aug 17 #5
It would be useful, if one were to actually believe this nonsense, to look at the Mauna Loa CO2 observatory data. NNadir Aug 18 #9
Where is COVID in the Mauna Loa data? Finishline42 Aug 18 #10
Actually, I intended this post for another thread but... NNadir Aug 19 #14
let me guess, you want to say the data a Mauna Loa is wrong? Finishline42 Aug 20 #19
Don't worry. Be happy. I hear all the time that solar and wind will save us. By the way, my lights went on and... NNadir Aug 20 #20
How fast could we build nuclear power plants? VMA131Marine Aug 19 #15
It actually would require something called "numbers" to dispose of this absurd argument. NNadir Aug 19 #16
I notice you didn't answer my question! VMA131Marine Aug 19 #17
I interpret my response quite differently. I don't regard numbers as Gish Gallop, but I am well aware that... NNadir Aug 20 #18
We're not going to save the world by trashing it. hunter Aug 17 #6
you've done your own research Skittles Aug 17 #8
Well it is a little more complicated jfz9580m Aug 18 #11
NNadir's post on Levelized Full System Costs of Electricity is a good one. hunter Aug 18 #12
Can't live forever. rickyhall Aug 17 #7
Here's a direct link without the social media tracking: hunter Aug 19 #13
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