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Sunstone Solar, one of the largest proposed solar projects in the U.S., has received its final discretionary approval from the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC), representing the final step in the state’s evaluation and public engagement process and authorizing project owner Pine Gate Renewables to proceed with construction.

The 1,200 MW solar and 1,200 MW storage project will be located in Morrow County. Pine Gate is in discussions with customers and local utilities to purchase the electricity and environmental attributes of the energy produced by the project, which will interconnect to the Bonneville Power Administration via the Umatilla Electric Cooperative system.

The project will begin the engineering and procurement process in early 2025 ahead of phased construction starting in 2026.

“Oregon’s energy facility permitting process is one of the most rigorous in the entire country,” says Ben Catt, CEO of Pine Gate Renewables. “The recent unanimous permit approval is a testament to the way our team worked with stakeholders to provide a win-win for Oregon and the Morrow County community.”

Pine Gate owns and operates 17 other solar projects in Oregon. The company acquired the Sunstone Solar project from Gallatin Power Partners in 2022.

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Wrong State

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Minnesota is home to intelligent, well-educated people whose approval of Trump is lower than that of toenail fungus.

If Lindell wants to lead a state, he needs to choose one at least 800 miles away. Oklahoma?

He may also want to consider that Trump is easily the most detested person in this nation.

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The Existence of God

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I wouldn’t say that the burden of proof lies on religion.  No one knows how the universe got here.

The Big Bang was an event in which there was no chaos, no “entropy,” as we say in thermodynamics.  How did all this orderliness get there 13.87 billion years ago? No one knows. This is an issue in cosmology which is quite likely to outlast human civilization on this planet.

I’m an atheist for a few reasons, one of which is that saying that God created the universe doesn’t get us any closer to an understanding of the cosmos, if only because it raises the question: Who made God?

More to the point, there are hundreds of moral reasons to disbelieve in God.  Each year, 9 million children will die unbaptized on this planet before their fifth birthdays.  In the bible, we learn that God punishes them all with an eternity of torture in hell.  To what sort of weirdo does this make sense?

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We’re Having Trouble Thinking

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At left we have another good reminder that our cognitive biases can render us incapable of thinking critically.

Some of us believe anything we want to.

We’re Having Trouble Thinking

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