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Mary Geddry, CEO of Coquille-based Rogue River Winds, said the ultra-efficient, low-profile, sturdy wind turbine with a built-in generator called the V-LIM, is generating interest.

She’s gearing up production. But don’t expect any local manufacturing jobs to spin out of it — at least not anytime soon.

“There just isn’t the infrastructure in Coos County at this time,” she said.

After attempts to get the V-LIM off the ground locally failed, Geddry relocated the project to Portland where a prototype was in the works, before she again relocated it to Cottage Grove where it was completed and may be manufactured.

She said some manufacturers in Alaska and the East Coast have expressed interest in producing it, as well.

Federal agencies including the DoD are under heavy pressure to meet 25% of their energy needs from renewable sources.

Driven by new government requirements that call for each military branch to purchase or generate at least 25 percent of the energy they use from renewable sources by 2025, the project is funded by a $4 million federal investment under the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill…

One factor causing concern with wind energy is the belief that traditional wind turbines interfere with radar, hence the interest in a low profile system like the V-LIM.

As reported on this blog previously, Coos County Commissioner Kevin Stufflebean claimed during an interview with Register Guard reporter, Winston Ross, his recent bankruptcy was due in part to using personal savings to defend against a recall effort. The claim raised the specter of possible campaign finance law abuse as he did not claim any personal contributions or expenses with OreSTAR.

Stufflebean repeated the claim in a later interview with the LA Times about recall elections around the country. Several Coos County citizens have reported the inconsistencies with the Oregon Secretary of State and this week, Eldon Rollins asked Stufflebean during a BOC meeting why his expenses were not properly reported. Caught in a web of his own making Stufflebean tried to hide behind a claim of personal privacy and followed up with Rollins after the meeting via email-

From: kstufflebean@CO.COOS.OR.US
To: Rollins
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:52:50 -0700
Subject: Personal Information

Eldon:
Just to clarify your question that would be a fact that all reportable information was placed on ORESTAR per campaign finance laws.
If you have further questions regarding my personal stuff, then I would encourage you to email or stop by my office or call.

Kevin Stufflebean

From: Rollins
To: kstufflebean@CO.COOS.OR.US
Kevin, just to clarify even more:
Your campaign expenses and how you met them are not personal stuff. They are public campaign finance reporting stuff.
Furthermore, your newspaper interviews are not private stuff, they are public because you made them public.
If you are quoted in the newspapers as saying that one of the reasons you had to declare bankruptcy was because of all the money of your own you had to spend on the recall, then a prudent individual would assume you spent a fair amount of your own money on it.
Sincerely,
Eldon Rollins

So “all reportable information” was provided to OreSTAR after all, meaning Stufflebean’s statements to two separate reporters from two respected newspapers separated by a period of weeks were untrue, a falsehood, something akin to ‘a lie’. Stufflebean, when caught in inconsistencies famously blames the press for misquoting him but The Register Guard and The LA Times are not as easily impeached as the local press.

Naturally, there is no reason to believe Stufflebean is ‘accurate’ now if he was inaccurate before, in fact there is every motivation to question every statement that comes from him, unfortunately The World does not do their job and will not report for the public just how liberal with the truth some of our elected officials are.

It is really hard to maintain any optimism or hope that Coos County might participate in a knowledge economy when the largest newspaper writes an editorial designed to keep the populous dumb and angry.

Entitled ‘Politics is all about persuasion’ the editor proceeds to persuade the reader a recent decision on the part of the City of San Francisco City to denounce Coos Bay’s proposed LNG terminal and pipeline is not based on factual data and well researched decision making. Rather that SF is populated by liberal busy bodies intruding upon other people’s business.

Opponents of a North Spit LNG terminal have failed to enlist hometown councils and boards in their cause. Oregon requires neutrality on land-use planning issues, and besides, local electees don’t need a fracas.

Thwarted at home, the LNG foes found willing ears in San Francisco. And such ears! The San Fran has a notorious fondness for crusades both large and small. It has battled the National Rifle Association over banning handguns, lectured China about human rights, and cleansed the city of non-biodegradable grocery bags.

Now, I could easily argue that each of the ‘crusades’ listed above have significant economic impact on the well being of San Francisco citizens but The World isn’t interested in facts or they would not belittle Jody McCaffree, a life long resident of Coos County, without citing some facts to support backup their own unconditional support for foreign LNG. The editor, still devoid of facts then resorts to name calling labeling board member, Chris Daly a “firebrand di tutti firebrand”. How classy, Clark, you should be really proud of your pithy, earthy and studiously ignorant redneck prose.

One final comment, the editorial begins by referring to old time journalists as if the writer had some insight into real journalism. Old time journalists, real journalists considered it a requirement to inform their readers, not blow smoke up their asses. How stupid do you think everyone is?