The local community plays an important role in the successful development of projects at Newberry. Not only will the community benefit from job creation and tax revenues, but geothermal projects also serve as an important educational platform for students and those interested in learning more about renewable energy. The project plans to use good public relations to inform citizens of its activities and to provide facilities for educational purposes.

Environment
Geothermal energy is a clean, renewable form of electricity. As an alternative to fossil-fuel plants geothermal plants, geothermal energy has enormous environmental advantages; significantly fewer and more easily controlled atmospheric emissions; readily maintainable groundwater quality; minimal amounts of troublesome waste; and generally more modest land requirements for power production facilities. The comparatively minute quantities of gases (such as carbon dioxide) emitted from geothermal electric power plants are not created during power production but are natural trace constituents of all geothermal systems. These gases would vent to the atmosphere even in the absence of geothermal development (although at far slower rates). Today, around 9000 MW of geothermal energy are online around the world in the US, Asia, Africa and Europe. In the US, there are several thousand installed MW of geothermal energy produced. Especially since they deliver power 24 hours a day, the U.S. geothermal facilities annually offset over 22 tons of CO2, 200,000 tons of SOx, 80,000 tons of NOx and 110 thousand tons of particulate matter.

Technology for the safe, nonpolluting use of geothermal water has been carefully developed and rigorously tested. Production and injection wells are lined with steel (or titanium) casing and cement to isolate fluids from the environment. Spent thermal waters are injected back into the reservoirs from which the fluids were derived.

Davenport Newberry agrees that environmental protection is important. We will continue to work with the BLM and other Federal agencies as well as Oregon State regulators to review field studies and complete environmental assessments.

Newberry National Volcanic Monument
The Monument was created through the efforts of the Newberry Monument Committee, made up of local citizens, environmental groups, recreational industry groups, geothermal energy representatives, government agency representatives and timber industry representatives. The culminating product of these diverse groups working together is the Newberry National Volcanic Monument legislation, which successfully resolves utilization and preservation of the Newberry Volcano area. Members of our team served on the committee and helped to create this Monument to protect the local environment for generations to come. In the legislation forming the Monument, specified uses designated for portions of the flanks of Newberry Volcano included lumbering, as in the past, and geothermal power development.

Associations
The Newberry Geothermal Project communicates with a number of local and regional government, industry, environmental and citizen organizations to ensure a healthy dialogue with the community and a variety of interest groups.