Horse Heaven Windfarm Job Post Gets “Lit Up” By Tri-Citians

You may have noticed lately ads popping up on your social media feeds from Scout Energy of Colorado, they're the ones pushing for the 240 wind turbines stretching for miles on the Horse Heaven Hills.

   Scout refers to opponents of windfarm as a "small yet vocal" number of people

The ad, which invites readers to "click here" to learn more about the project, refers to the thousands who oppose the massive windfarm as a small but vocal group.

 For about the last two years, growing numbers of people have joined to fight against this massive project that would spread wind turbines down the spine of the Horse Heaven Hills from Finley for 24 miles.

The particular ad we noticed had at least 212 comments, and most of them were scathing about the idea. We have withheld the names of those commenting for privacy, but some of these are doozies:

"No wind mills! They are an eyesore, hazard to birds and wildlife, inefficient, huge carbon footprint to manufacture, and the rationale and justification for this form of “ green” energy” is completely false!"

"Unadulterated BS! Ruining the beautiful Horse Heavens for useless- inefficient- environmental disaster. How can we stop this insanity??? The Kennewick skyline is already destroyed. Create real jobs building nuclear power plants at Hanford."

"This advertising is bull. Windmills are NOT green energy. They are a scar to our environment as well as an eyesore. Limited jobs/revenue to this area and the limited energy produced isn’t even intended for this area."

"Proven 30% loss in property values, all the the blade noise, 100 miles of dirt roads for construction to blow all the residual herbicides from wheat fields all over the tri cities, 500 ft windmills will be a terrible sight up there. 240 stacked 6 deep for 24 miles. And their connex’s stacked on each other full of so called battery backup is good for 4 hours. The whole thing is a scam on tri cities"

"What happens when there is no wind...no sun...and no coal or natural gas plants to back them up? And idiots want to tear down the dams too....where will the power come from to charge all those evs"

And finally, one of our favorite comments:

"Built it in Governor Inslee’s backyard. Not ours."