Wind farm permit OK'd in Whitman County WA
Monday, May 23, 2011
COLFAX, Wash. (AP) -- A hearing examiner has granted a conditional use permit for construction of a wind farm in northeastern Whitman County, Wash.
Examiner Andrew Kottkamp made his decision Monday.
The Moscow-Pullman Daily News says the permit was sought by the Palouse Wind project and parent company First Wind.
The Palouse Wind website says the planned wind farm would have a potential generating capacity of 100 megawatts -- enough to power 25,000 homes.
Also on Monday, the wind energy industry demanded that the Bonneville Power Administration fix problems that have forced the shut-off of Northwest wind generators while hydroelectric dams fill the grid with power produced from a heavy spring runoff.
