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How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon (www.propublica.org)

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What those lawmakers didn’t plan for was that 50 years later, an Oregon citizen activist would use that same bureaucracy to hinder some of the very energy projects that today’s liberals want: wind farms and the new high-voltage lines needed to support them.

They didn’t plan for Irene Gilbert.

The 76-year-old retired state employee, former gun store owner and avid elk hunter from La Grande, Oregon, is on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape. She has filed more challenges to energy projects — 15 in all, including lawsuits — than anyone in the state, according to Oregon’s Department of Energy.

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

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I hope to do something similar someday but it still cost petroleum to make them. I’m envisioning an alternative.

This feels like you're focusing on a tiny tiny issue of carbon use generated during manufacturing of solar panels while ignoring the massive massive issue of carbon use during operation of nearly every other utility traditional power generation system.

Wind turbines do cost petroleum to maintain. You have to lubricate them.

All of the petroleum used to lubricate a windmill over its entire lifetime is likely less than the petroleum used in a single day of a traditional petroleum based power generation system of the same capacity.

Can you explain why you're hyperfocused on the small consumption while ignoring the massively larger consumption of alternatives?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

All of the petroleum used to lubricate a windmill over its entire lifetime is likely less than the petroleum used in a single day of a traditional petroleum based power generation system of the same capacity.

The ONLY problem about oil is burning it. If we just used it for lubricants and plastics, we'd have enough till pretty much the end of the world.