The Lava Ridge Wind project in Idaho has been a thorn in Idaho’s sides locally for quite some time. Last June, I told you all about how the Bureau of Land Management had, once the developer’s plans were approved, closed the required 90-day public comment period with a ‘thank you all for your input.’ The BLM pinkie swore to seriously consider every single one of the 11,000 or so comments submitted.
…As these things go, there were quite a few reasonable objections to Lava Ridge’s construction besides its being big, ugly, and a waste.
For one thing, the proposal snugged behemoth wind turbines damn near right up against the property line of the Minidoka National Historic Site in Jerome, Idaho. The caretakers of that place are horrified by the intrusion.
Minidoka National Historic Site in Jerome, Idaho, tells the painful stories of the unconstitutional forced…
