People need to rise up!! The future of Klickitat County is at stake and it has become a money pit for the foreign developers to set up business and have very little regulation, minimum permit fees and low taxes. All this means is maximum profits for these developers.
The Commissioners tout the benefits of these projects that have an everlasting negative impact on the county.
Let’s take a look at solar. Thousands of acres of black glass that produces very little electricity and it has only a few hours a day that it can produce anything and that’s if it is not cloudy. Over half the time they do nothing but sit there.
Commissioners site the taxes that will be coming to the county but they don’t know how much or even how they will tax the solar industrial sites.
The Commissioners have no idea what will be done with the huge amount of panels that are considered toxic waste. When they are decommissioned or broken there are just a few places that will take them and they are filling up fast. So does this mean we will have to find a hazardous dump areas in the county?
Then you have the Under Canvas project that is being placed in a remote area off the beaten path for tourism. For the people that enjoy living there for the beauty of the area this will be a disaster. because it looks like a resort for week-end parties for what is now called city Yuccies to have a place they can do what ever they want without fear of the law. The safety concerns of their development are numerous. The amount of sewage that will have to be dealt with right next to the White Salmon River, the amount of water that will be used and the road has to be widened. It will require extra fire protection and emergency equipment. Who will pay for this?
The County Planning Department and the Commissioners are willing to over look the safety concerns or anything that might slow down or prevent the project from moving forward.
We all need to stick together to bring the county under control to have common sense development with protections in place for the benefit of the citizens.
This is why ‘cease2020.org’ would like to have a meeting and share the information they have on what is really going on behind the scenes in the county. If you would like to attend and participate in a town hall workshop on what can be done, email cease2020.org and let them know you would like to come. If we can get enough people, we will send you a notice of the time and place where the meeting will be held.
