A document connected to the Horse Heaven wind and solar project in Washington state remains under wraps. The Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council declined to release a document detailing its reasons for recommending Washington Gov. Jay Inslee approve the contentious Horse Heaven wind and solar project. The council voted 5-2 on April 17 to send a report to Inslee that supports allowing up to 222 turbines and more than 5,000 acres of solar panels on rolling hills, mostly farmland, near the Tri-Cities.
On a Thursday morning in late March, a group of Wenatchi-P’squosa people and a few dozen supporters assembled amid patches of snow and mud atop Badger Mountain in central Washington.
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Because more than 100 of the turbines, which could stand taller than the Space Needle, might pose a danger to a little-known and endangered species in the Tri-Cities area: the ferruginous hawk. To protect the hawk, Washington’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, or EFSEC, will consider removing more than half of the project’s proposed turbines, marking a victory for ecologists who petitioned for the changes but a substantial defeat for the Colorado developer behind the project and a delay for this state’s renewable energy goals.
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