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Wind turbines have been in the local news in recent months because they've come across Port of Vancouver docks en route to the windy east side of the Cascade Mountains, where wind farms generate electricity in places such as Klickitat, Kittitas and Walla Walla counties. But now, the rush toward renewable energy sources could be expanding into Clark County. We welcome it. But, plenty of questions surround this week's stunning development.
A company called Evergreen Wind Power Partners LLC expects to negotiate a lease of 5,400 acres in the hills of east central Clark County from the Washington Department of Natural Resources. As reported in The Columbian Thursday by Erik Robinson, Evergreen would build as many as 39 wind towers in the Yacolt Burn State Forest east of Hockinson and just west of the Larch Corrections Center. At full output, they could supply about 10 percent of the county's electricity needs.See the full content of this document
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In Our View: Questions in the Wind
The company, which is a subsidiary of enXco energy company of Escondido, Calif., is hard to track down. Ro...
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