A conflict of interest?

The Whitman County Commissioners have rebuffed multiple requests by local citizens to enact a moratorium on wind farms in order for the wind code to be re-examined. The requests were to ensure the citizens of Whitman County would have a chance to be adequately protected from the adverse impact industrial wind farms have on quality of life. Impacts like shadow flicker, infrasound noise and diminished viewshed, just to name a few. Whitman County has the weakest code requirements of any county in Washington per the US Dept of Energy, but that doesn’t matter to the Commissioners.

It appears that t...