The Importance of Wind

I n 2007, when planning was underway for the second phase of the Marengo wind project in Columbia County, a small number of local citizens went to great extremes to try to stop it. They were unsuccessful, and that project joined Hopkins Ridge and Marengo I to establish an important new economic driver in the Touchet Valley.

Puget Sound Energy, owner and operator of Hopkins Ridge, has since received a Conditional Use Permit in Co- lumbia County (as well as one in Garfield County) for the development of the Lower Snake River Wind Project. Phase I of that project was completed in Garfield County...