>To date, PGE has refused to comment on the results of its review or say exactly what its inspections found. This story has a very familiar ring to it. I'm sure I've heard this before. >As recently as this spring and summer, dozens of the once pristine white turbines at the site were caked in oil and lubricants leaking from gearboxes and other controls housed in a box behind the rotor, suspended 265 feet in the air. That oil not only coats the machines, it is spitting into surrounding fields. Transformers have ruptured with drumbeat regularity, dumping thousands of gallons of mineral oil into the soil and causing two fires in the last 15 years. But they are safe and effective. Wait! There's more >Pieces of the turbines – hatch doors, metal disks and blade bolts – have routinely fallen off turbines and into the fields below. PGE has failed to report most of those incidents to the state, despite requirements in state rules to operate and maintain the turbines in a safe fashion, and a specific condition in its operating agreement to report any problems that could impact public safety within 72 hours. Public safety?