The local community plays an important role in the successful development of the project. Not only will the community benefit from job creation and tax revenues, but the project also serves as an important educational platform for school children 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. It helps reduce pollution and because it delivers high rates of power 24 hours a day, it offsets more greenhouse gases than other renewable forms of energy. Today, around 8000 MW of geothermal energy are online around the world in the US, Asia, Africa and Europe. In the US, there are 2700 installed MW of US geothermal energy produced. These MW offset 22 tons of CO2 , 200,000 tons of SOx, 80,000 tons of NOx and 110 thousand tons of particle matter in the US annually. This is good for the environment and has significant green value.

Power production at the Newberry facility is essentially a zero emission process. Small amounts of water evaporate during power production are emitted, but most of the water is re-injected into the ground where it re-heats. The plant is quiet and has low visibility. Sometimes, its easy to drive by a geothermal plant without even seeing it.

Newberry National Volcanic Monument
The Newberry Monument was created by a Newberry Monument Committee, made up of local citizens, environmental groups, recreational industry groups, geothermal energy 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 our team were on the committee and helped to create this monument to protect the local environment for generations to come. In the agreement to form the monument, the west flank of Newberry volcano was left available for lumbering, as in the past, and for geothermal power development.

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