Harvesting a New Crop, Part I - A Community Transformed

Puget Sound Energy's Lower Snake River Wind Project is one of the largest wind-power facilities in the Pacific Northwest. Phase I of the project comprises 149 wind turbines capable of generating enough power to serve the electricity needs of 100,000 homes. Watch this video to see how the wind project is transforming the Southeast Washington community in which it is located.

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Science & Technology

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• LSR
• lower snake river
• pomeroy
• eastern washington
• wind power
• wind turbines
• green power
• puget sound energy
• pse
• washington
• clean energy

[csreeves]

@csreeves

One final idea...

Learn from the wisdom of our elders. Get off the grid. Put up your own windmill (if you live in a windy place). Set up your own Micro-Hydro plant (if you live near where water flows). But whatever you do, learn to conserve and then provide what little you actually NEED...and try to do it without asking for a government handout.

I remember when farmers used to talk about how they hated all the welfare programs for the less fortunate city folks...now look.

[csreeves]

@csreeves (cont. #2)

...When the government taxes it's citizens, uses eminent domain to take ownership of the land it needs and then has the audacity to CHARGE you a monthly fee (which will most likely increase over time) for the energy it harvests from nature using your money and land to do so...I suppose talking about then environment is the best way to shift focus from the real issue: You are being bamboozled!

Wake up sheeple...life is a game of chess, not checkers.

[csreeves]

@csreeves (continued)

...and we find out that being "environmental" means nothing more than THAT is where you work...outside in the environment. (I guess that farmer meant that farmers are "environmental" as opposed to working in a building)

How obtuse does the general population have to be to see and hear this message and not think, "How does someone who aligns themself with the likes of Monsanto, Cargill and Simplot...think of themselves as 'environmental'"

One final thought...(cont.)

[csreeves]

@wachobf

Wait, what?! Someone is actually speaking the TRUTH here...crazy!

And while we're on the subject of TRUTH, let's go ahead and get REALY honest. When one of the farmers interviewed says, "...us farmers are all 'environmental,'" I about laughed out loud. Combine that statement with a scence of dust blowing behind an implement and thousands of acres of monoculture with virtually NO biodiversity, where the common and highest goal is yield per acre...(continued)

[bobdoorag]

Love It! Go Garfield County! 

[cougguy09]

Hey that's my uncle Boo!

[75weim]

Self Sufficiency ? The only thing that makes windmills profitable is the Federal subsidy that is paid to these large corporations for each windmill. More subsidies for an already subsidy rich county. A huge visual blight will be inflicted on the landscape for forever.

[wachobf]

Here's another thought, how often will the plant actually generate enough to serve 100,000 homes? 22% of the year...maybe?

[wachobf]

Tell the truth about wind power. The only thing greener about these things is the CA$H flow.

Coal and nuclear facilities cannot change output rapidly enough to respond to demand changes on the grid, so when everyone turns out the lights at night, the other GREEN AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE (AKA HYDRO-POWER) is the producer to back down, not coal or nuclear. Likewise when these things actually turn, HYDRO-POWER is the producer that is suppressed.

Wake up America! You're being fleeced!

[jennyboerding]

this video makes me so home sick for my Pomeroy, WA.