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E SUBJECT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT. REPRODUCTION, DISSEMINATION, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION PROHIBITED. 23, 2004 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. / $199 lb. 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