State regulators dealt a regulatory blow to a massive wind farm proposal in Washington state on Wednesday, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB).
The Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) moved to significantly reduce the amount of area available to the Horse Heaven Hills wind farm development, citing concerns about the project’s potential impacts on hawks and other wildlife, according to OPB. Scout Clean Energy, the company behind the project, has criticized the decision as arbitrary, and Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee will have final say in whether the project can proceed at the initially-proposed scale.
Scout Energy wants to build hundreds of wind turbines along 24 miles of ridgelines in the state’s southeast, but EFSEC’s recommendations would effectively cut the area available to the project in half, according to OPB. The turbines could end up being taller than Seattle’s Space…
