While it sucks to lose the jobs, they’ve known for awhile and built a gas plant and will be building a solar facility as well. Plus we are currently the go to area for data centers now and have been for awhile now. Only reason Hermiston has seen any real growth is because of Boardman, not anything Hermiston is offering.

However, the people who should be most concerned are the people on the west side of the state, as their power rates will triple due to the coal plant shut down, that’s where the power is sent. And not only will their power rates go up but so will taxes because things like windmills are roughly 80% tax subsidized and don’t produce the same amount of power. So they have to build more but will cost us even more. Vicious cycle that will only make things worse. And never mind the rolling brown and black outs that Oregon will now start to experience because of no real reliable back up power.