Help Stop Kamiak Butte industrial wind project

Have you ever hiked Kamiak Butte County Park? Have you enjoyed the expansive views of the rolling fertile food-producing agricultural fields of the surrounding Palouse countryside? Did you know there is an Industrial Wind Company (Harvest Hills Wind) who wants to place 45+ ginormous wind turbines around the south and west side of Kamiak Butte? They want to place these monstrous machines (reportable could be 600-700 feet tall) in prime farm ground (which is designated as agricultural ground of state-wide importance). These wind turbines will be very close to resident’s homes and livelihoods! I am not here to debate the pros and cons of alternative energy. I am here to express the utter insanity of placing this industrial conglomeration in this proposed location! There is a growing opposition to this effort! There is a Facebook group called “Stop Kamiak Butte Industrial Wind Project” with current membership at 1.4K! There is also an on-line petition on change dot org titled “Protect Kamiak Butte: Stop the Harvest Hills Wind Project!” that in less than a week has over 800 signatures! If you wish to join the group or sign the petition – put the title of the petition in your favorite search engine and join us! If you care and cherish the paradise of the Palouse and want to protect the acres of farmland that feeds the world… please help stop this! Write to your elected Whitman County Commissioners or even better, attend a commissioner’s meeting! Here is their web site: https://www.whitmancounty.org/367/Board-of-Whitman-County-Commissioners . The Palouse has been referred to by many national publications as the Tuscany of America – please help keep it that way!

Gwen Anderson

Pullman