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PAGE 3
ing Horsethief Lake
Washington State
Department and
County Weed
joined forces recently
a degraded
Lake near
Rangers noticed
crowds declining;
it was due to a
aquatic weed infes-
according to park
Andy Kallinen.
slime in the toes
goo on the fish
a potential
factor,"
said. He and Weed
supervisor Marty
set out to fix the
Electronic map-
Using a small boat,
revealed approximately 11 of
the lake's 90 acres clogged
with surface or near-surface
weeds. Most grew in water
lo to 15 feet deep or shallow-
er - exactly where bank fish-
ermen, small boats, and
swimmers recreate, Kallinen
said.
The Army Corps of
Engineers and Washington
State departments of
Ecology and Fish and
Wildlife were consulted,
then Lakeside Aquatic
Services from Lakeside, Ore.
was called in for two solid
days of weed harvesting on
Aug. 28 and 29.
Phil Gray, owner/opera-
tor, hauled his MudCat
Contributed photo
Harvester (pictured) out to
the park on the evening of
Aug. 27. He and his friend
Jeff launched the paddle-
wheel-driven, 4o-foot craft
and started working on the
area immediately around the
lake's boat-launch. When
they ran out of time on
Sunday, about half the
weeds were gone. Park
rangers hope winter will
knock the plants back some
more, Kallinen said.
"There are still plenty of
weeks of good weather and
good fshing left before the
park and fishing closes
October 31, so head on down
and catch a fish."
-- Sam Lowry
By GREG SKINNER
News Re
after the paper announced its clos-
Phone line still rang at the Klickitat
Lyle office.
~Veek Jeanne Brown, editor of the
County Monitor, wrote the lead
page one; it went like this, "After
the owner...has decid-
the Monitor after nearly three
Service."
',the desire of staff to focus on other
Brown wrote, "The board made the
in Lyle, the Monitor started
Street in Goldendale in the tall of
Becky Blanton left the Goldendale
start a newspaper that would give
an "unbiased" account of land-rights issues in
Klickitat County.
"Country folk like to read about country
folk, and I guess that's what the people will
miss the most," said Mildred Lykens, a
reporter for the Monitor.
The Monitor quickly became known
throughout the county as a land rights paper.
The Monitor served as the sole officiaL:
newspaper for Klickitat County last fiscal
year. The Monitor recently joined with the
White Salmon Enterprise and the Goldendale
Sentinel in a three-way contract with Klickitat
County for the same title.
Brown wrote that the Monitor had apposi-
tive effect and that the staff achieved its goal
of accurate, consistent and fair news for the
last three years.
"The people around here will be sad that it's
closed," said Lykens.
The Klickitat County
Planning Department has
received an application for a
167-turbine, 25o-megawatt
(MW) wind energy develop-
ment in east-central Klickitat
County, south of Bickleton.
The project, dubbed the
Bighorn Wind Farm, is being
proposed by PPM Energy of
Portland. It would be located
immediately north of the
3oo-MW White Creek wind
farm planned by the Last Mile
Electric Cooperative (see The
Sentinel, Sept. 9).
According to maps includ-
ed in PPM's conditional use
permit (CUP) application,
rows or "strings" of 4oo-foot-
tall wind turbines would be
scattered from Middle Road,
east of Cleveland, nine miles
south to a point northeast of
the intersection of Dot and
Newell roads.
All of the turbines would lie
between Dot Road on the
west and Pine Creek on the
east.
"We don't talk about our
projects, but the CUP has
been filed and [the project] is
in the permitting process,"
said Jan Johnson, PPM
spokeswoman.
"The big question mark is
the federal production tax
credit," she added.
The Bighorn and many
other wind projects nation-
wide are awaiting action by
the U.S. congress on a bill
that would extend a tax credit
that has been in place for a
number of years, but that
recently "sunset" - built-in
expiration allowing congres-
sional review.
"We hope for [passage in]
2oo4 or 2005. It has biparti-
san support, but has a way of
getting attached to other bills.
It is a very critical piece of leg-
islation for the wind indus-
try," Johnson said.
Tom Svendsen, Klickitat
Public Utility District (KPUD)
general manager, confirmed
the link between the legisla-
tion and progress on wind
projects including White
Creek, in which KPUD has a
stake as a Last Mile member.
"Without that [tax] sup-
port, wind projects will go
nowhere," Svendsen said.
Johnson referred to her
company's action in filing the
local land use application
while the national bill is
pending as "perfecting the
pipeline while we wait for the
legislation."
Up to 8,0o0 MW of poten-
tial wind projects are pending
nationwide, Johnson said.
PPM is the nation's second-
largest provider of wind
power, with 830 MW in oper-
ation and a goal of 2,0oo MW
by 2olo, according to
Johnson.
"Our focus is on the west
and midwest," she said. PPM,
part of Scottish Power and
therefore a sister company to
PacifiCorp of Portland, cur-
rently owns and operates the
Klondike project in Wasco
County, Ore., and also pur-
chases all of the power pro-
duced by the 3oo-MW
Stateline project near
Pendleton.
"We have had good experi-
ence with the Northwest...
[and] good experience with
the local communities in
developing wind," Johnson
said, noting the abundant
wind resource found in wheat
country, its "closeness to
load," straightforward con-
struction requirements, and
wheat farmers' thankflflness
for the extra income.
The planning department's
next step, according to plan-
ning director Curt Dreyer, is
review of the application to
ensure completeness, fol-
lowed by distribution to other
interested agencies for com-
ments as required by the
State Environmental Policy
Act (SEPA).
Cultural and archaeological
resources, vegetation,
wildlife, noise impact, air
quality, storm water, flood
hazard, visual impact and
public safety are items
reviewed under SEPA laws,
according to Dreyer.
"EOZ articulation is a ques-
tion," Dreyer pointed out,
referring to whether or not
the application would still be
subject to the same CUP
process if the county's Energy
Overlay Zone (EOZ) is
approved while the applica-
tion is pending.
-- Sam Lowry
rate
effective Oct. 1
By GREG SKINNER
News Reporter
Last week the Bonneville Power
Administration (BPA) announced that it
would reduce its wholesale power rates by 7-5
percent on October 1.
The BPA said it reduced costs by $70 mil-
lion since 2o03 and plans to save $350 mil-
lion more by 2006.
Putting the savings claims into context
Tom Svendsen, general manager of Ktickitat
Public Utility District said the recent rate cut
is unlikely to save KPUD customers a dime
because their rates will not drop. "My guess
is we probably won't do anything," said
Svendsen.
The BPA upped the rates by 47 percent in
2000, and Svendsen said, and hoping that
the rate hike was not permanent, the KPUD
did not pass that increase on to its custon!ers
at the time.
"We no longer depend on Bonneville for
the power," said Svendsen. KPUD gets power
from the McNary Dam project, the Roosevelt
Regional Landfill methane-powered genera-
tion plant and other sources, said Svendsen.
In fact all the homes in Klickitat County can
be powered with the landfill generators
alone.
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