"Just outside Bonanza, OR, sits an eight-year-old solar farm, a stark testament to corporate neglect. Frames tilt haphazardly, cracked and shattered panels litter the overgrown fields, and frayed wires snake through desiccated weeds. The once-promising grid now resembles a derelict industrial site, a breeding ground for fire hazards with its accumulated dry vegetation and exposed electrical components. This decaying landscape underscores a disturbing reality: for some solar companies, profitability trumps responsible land stewardship, leaving our community to contend with the hazardous aftermath of their abandoned promises."

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Solar Boom in Oregon could reshape rural landscapes, agriculture

Article by Gozia Wozniacka on the State of Solar on Rural Oregon

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By Erika Bentsen Norris
The rural community of Bonanza, Oregon is facing a
massive solar and co-generation complex being constructed
in the heart of its farming and ranching landscape. Chicago
based Hecate Energy, a clean energy company with clients
such as the City of Los Angeles and Georgia Power is proposing
to construct the complex.
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Article by Ericka Bentsen Norris

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