"I hope that this is enough to put a plug in this and stop these projects from desecrating our public lands," Twin Falls County Commissioner Jack Johnson told the crowd Tuesday,The Lava Ridge wind farm would put up to 400 wind turbines on about 118 square miles of public land, including land near the Minidoka internment camp where more than 9,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II.
But the plan has drawn widespread opposition from government leaders, local ranchers and people who say the project endangers the Minidoka National Historic Site, which commemorates the thousands of people with Japanese ancestry who were ordered by the U.S. government into prison camps around the country starting in 1942.
The federal Bureau of Land Management began collecting public comment on a draft Environmental Impact Statement for the wind farm in January, and the public comment period ends April 20. "They come here because they thought we were a bunch of dumb hillbillies," Looper said. "They were going to slide it through … and they were going to walk out of here rich."
Good hundreds more should join them they are a complete waste of time and tax dollars. Taxes pay and have paid for these not the corporations building them
this boondoggle is an ecological disaster and complete waste of money
I LOVE EAGLES, HAWKS AND OTHER BIRDS THAT WOULD BE KILLED.
Build it. Progress
Good. Windmills are a scam. It takes way more energy to produce and install them than they ever produce, and then you can’t recycle them when they inevitably break.
They are an eyesore. Kill thousands of birds. And rot in the ground when they break.
It's so windy in Southern Idaho because Wyoming sucks!
Coal it is then.
Ugly ugly ugly. They should all be stopped.
Nuclear is the way to go. It can be done safely with Triso fuel and by storing the waste on site in deep shafts drilled by oil drilling rigs far below the water tables or anything geologically active. 18 holes would hold all the waste for the entire operational lifetime of a…
How many gallons of oil and lubricants does it take to run these things?
Build it, otherwise all these electric cars people drive are being powered with coal/gas.
Follow the money; who benefits from this project financially and how does that eventually pay the powers that be?
These damn new yorkers are coming out here and...doing the same thing I'm doing.
Bad idea to build the wind project.