Washington
Radar Ridge Project, WA
STATUS: Prolonged Delay TYPE: Wind OPPOSITION: Audubon Society; Environmentalists PROSPECTS: Indeterminate BACKGROUND: Energy Northwest has proposed the Radar Ridge Project, which would install 32 wind turbines in Pacific County near Naselle. The project is valued at over $200 million. Construction … Continue reading
Whistling Ridge Wind Project, WA
STATUS: In progress, with opposition TYPE: Wind OPPOSITION: National Park Service; U.S. Forest Service; Friends of the Gorge, SOSA; Friends of Columbia George PROSPECTS: Indeterminate BACKGROUND: The Whistling Ridge project would consist of up to fifty wind turbines producing a … Continue reading
Shanker’s Bend Hydropower Project, WA
STATUS: In progress, with opposition TYPE: Hydropower OPPOSITION: Hydropower Reform Coalition; The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society PROSPECTS: Likely BACKGROUND: Shankers Bend is a 42-megawatt water storage and hydroelectric project located on the Similkameen River in Okanogan County, Washington. The … Continue reading
Desert Claim Wind Power Project, WA
TYPE: Wind Power Project STATUS: In progress, with opposition OPPOSITION: Kittitas County officials; local residents BACKGROUND: EnXco wants to build a wind farm on 5,200 acres, north of Ellensburg, Washington. With 95 turbines and 190-megawatts of power generating capacity, Desert Claim … Continue reading
Pacific Mountain Energy Center, Kalama, WA
STATUS: Killed TYPE: Coal OPPOSITION: Sierra Club PROSPECTS: Unlikely BACKGROUND: In 2006 a consortium of local utilities proposed a 793 megawatt, $1.5 billion integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) facility to turn coal, petroleum coke or other feedstock into gas and … Continue reading