{"id":8897,"date":"2010-03-09T19:55:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2012-01-25T12:45:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:45:38","slug":"shes-got-every-symptom-right-down-the-line-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2010\/shes-got-every-symptom-right-down-the-line-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"“She’s got every symptom, right down the line!” (Oregon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Commissioners hear from angry foe of wind farms”<\/h3>\n

—by Bill Rautenstrauch, The Observer<\/a> 3\/8\/10<\/p>\n

Some downright vituperative comment on the proposed Antelope Ridge Wind Farm highlighted a meeting of the Union County Board of Commissioners last Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Telocaset resident Rod Swanson, long disgruntled over the presence of Elkhorn Valley Wind Farm turbines near his home, unleashed a loud, obscenity-laced tirade at the three-member board.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, b \u2014\u2014-t!\u201d Swanson cried at one point, prompting board Chairman Mark Davidson to warn Swanson that if he didn\u2019t cool the language, he would have to leave.<\/p>\n

Davidson ended up issuing two such warnings before Swanson stormed out on his own.<\/p>\n

In April 2008, Swanson and his wife, Fay Stein-Swanson, unsuccessfully appealed the conditional use permit granted Horizon Wind Energy in March 2007 for the Elkhorn Valley Wind Farm at Telocaset.<\/p>\n

The Elkhorn facility was formally dedicated in August 2007. Among many other complaints, the Swansons claimed the wind turbines were making Fay Swanson ill.<\/p>\n

Rod Swanson repeated the claim during the Tuesday meeting, saying his wife suffers from \u201cwind tower [turbine] syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s got every symptom, right down the line,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Horizon has proposed building a second facility, the 300-megawatt wind Antelope Ridge Wind Farm, in the Craig Mountain area near Union. Swanson stated vehement opposition to construction of Antelope Ridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI too am against it for the simple fact we\u2019re going to be surrounded even more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also demanded that the county not enter into a Strategic Investment Program agreement with Horizon, and berated Commissioner Steve McClure for voting in favor of the Elkhorn SIP.<\/p>\n

Union County rancher Tom Price and North Powder resident Curtis Martin also offered comments in opposition of the wind farm proposal.<\/p>\n

Steve Donnell of La Grande also spoke, saying the county should proceed cautiously on wind farm issues, and, during the state\u2019s review process, raise issues of local concern. . . .<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This image did not appear in the original article “Commissioners hear from angry foe of wind farms” —by Bill Rautenstrauch, The Observer 3\/8\/10 Some downright vituperative comment on the proposed Antelope Ridge Wind Farm highlighted a meeting of the Union County Board of Commissioners last Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}