7/9-10/2007...UPC Wind takes down illegal wind towers that had been erected on the Kortge property.
7/3/2007...The Oregon Energy Siting Council announces it will hold a public meeting in The Dalles at 6 p.m. July 26 to discuss and take comments on the Cascade Wind Project.
6/27/2007...Judge Crowley extends the date that the Kortge met towers must be removed to July 9 to give the Oregon Supreme Court time to hear UPC's appeal of his decision.
6/24/2007....The Dalles Chronicle reports that Grant Robbins, one of the three landowners to lease property to UPC through GE, decides he wants out of the project.
6/20/2007...UPC notifies that that its target date for application supplement is Aug. 31, 2007.
6/12/2007...Circuit Court Judge Paul Crowley rules that UPC Wind acted unlawfully in erecting met towers on the Kortge property on Sevenmile Hill in violation of a prior decision of the State Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA). Pursuant to the LUBA decsion, UPC does not have a valid permit to site met towers on either the Kortge or Robbins properties on Sevenmile. LUBA had rejected an earlier approval by Wasco County in an appeal brought by local residents Mark Womble and Gary and Linda Casady. LUBA had found that the county's approval was not justified under the county's land use ordinance. When UPC ignored the LUBA decsion and erected towers on the Kortge property anyway, Womble filed suit in Circuit Court June 1 seeking a declaratory judgment and injunction requiring the removal of the towers. In Tuesday's decision granting a preliminary injunction, Judge Crowley ordered the towers on the Kortge property be removed no later than June 30, subject to Womble posting a security bond in the sum of $2,000.00.
6/7/2007....State deems the application "incomplete."
5/25/2007....Public comment period ends on the completeness of UPC's application. Approximately 100 public comments are opposed to the project. Three are in favor.
5/2/2007....UPC holds an open house to a very skeptical audience of more than 100
4/10/2007...UPC submits a preliminary application with the state for a site certificate to build on Sevenmile Hill
