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The Mason County PUD 3 commissioners, Bruce Jorgenson, left, Linda Gott, and Tom Farmer got
gloomy news on the status of the Radar Ridge Wind Project during Tuesday's PUD commission
meeting.
PUD 3 gets grim update on Radar Ridge
By NATALIE JOHNSON shutdown time every year during ear- At this point, few would argue that
ly morning hours, mating seasons," the project can successfully be cam-
Mason County PUD 3 got an up- said Matt Samuelson, assistant pew- pleted and Energy Northwest is look-
date on the status of the Radar Ridge er supply manager for PUD 3. "They ing for a utility or private developer
Wind Project last week -- which con- want 2,400 hours." to buy the project in its entirety. Un-
firmed their worst suspicions. Samuelson said Fish and Wildlife til then, the PUD 3 and other part-
Project partners Energy North- also asked that theproject partners ners are looking for a way to distance
west, PUD 3, and three other public set aside $10 million to help the mar- themselves from the project, includ-
power utilities in Clallam, Grays Har- bled murrelet and would only agree ing not continuing the lease for the
bar andPacific Counties once believed to a five-year, rather than a 25-year, Department of Natural Resources
the project could be permitted, built permit for the wind farm. (DNR) land designated for the project.
and operational by 2011, but due to "To invest that kind of money in a "That's the real question, does any-
seemingly endless delays mostly from project that you're expecting to have a body want to sink any more money
environmental concerns, the project 20-year lifespan - it's stifling," Samu- into the project," Samuelson said:
has yet to receive permits, elson said. The project partners have until No-
The PUD recently learned that Samuelson said Fish and Wildlife vember 1 to extend the lease.
environmental interests, such as the also wants project partners to install The PUD 3 commissioners are cer-
Washington Department of Fish and a radar detection system for the birds tainly not willing to sink any more
Wildlife, would seek what the PUD that is currently only in testing stages than the more than $300,000 they
describes as unprecedented mitiga- in Europe, in addition to another the have already spent into this project.
tion measures to protect an endan- partners have agreed to. "I think we can call it a failed proj-
gered bird, the marbled murrelet, "There's an obvious effort to make ect," PUD 3 Commissioner Linda Gott
from the wind turbines, an example of this project if nothing said. "It's aggravating but what can
"We offered up to 300 hours of else," he said. you do?"
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A member of a cleanup crew at last Thursday's 14th Pacific Coast Shellfish Grower's Association
Beach Clean Up brings in a load of tires. I~P'~1~-°rtable
S he!lfish growers clean up the Sound' w'n°°w' --
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ups in 2005 to see how much cial certification to recover ten over a thousand tires,"
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Growers Association con-they actually found surprised pick up surface debris, found a lot of dirty Styrofoam, I Heats 250-750 SQ. Ft. I
tinued their mission to keep them., Lentz said crews gener- a material that presents a
Puget Sound clean. 'We re actually not find- ally find items such as plastic problem for the association.
Twelve cleanup crews, to- ing very much from geoduck pipe, bottles and cans, about I have not been able to
taling 58 people from eight farms," Lentz said. 50-75 tires per cleanup and find anyone who. recycles
dirty Styrofoam," Lentz said.
While the program is de-
signed to simply help clean up
the Puget Sound, members of
the Pacific Coast Shellfish
local shellfish farms, cleaned Of the 37 total cubic yards used fireworks.
up 65 miles of beachfront in of trash crews picked up on Because of tides and the
only a few hours on Thursday Thursday, only 2 cubic yards way water flows through the
as part of the group's biannu- were aquaculture debris,sound, debris washes ashore
al beach cleanup. "That's very low. In theon Squaxin Island. Lentz
"We want to be good stew- past we've averaged about 16 said crews have found every-
ards of the Sound," said percent aquaculture debris," thing from recliners to TVs
Linda Lentz from the Pacific said Mary Middleton of the on the island.
Coast Shellfish Growers As- association. "We get some weird stuff
sociation. Crews also collected 5 cu- from there," she said.
Crews came ashore to bic yards of tires and four Over time, the trash really
dump their hauls at the Ar- bags ofrecyclable cans. adds up.
cadia boat ramp in Mason According to Lentz, the "This is our 14th time do-
County and also at a location clean up crews focus mostly ing it ... In the last 13 times
in Nisqually. on beaches where debris we've gotten over 800 cu-
The association first start- washes ashore during high bic yards. That's 80 10-yard
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public too - a lot of this stuff
is getting on the beach, they
might be a source."
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