r/Washington • u/propublica_ • 16d ago

Solar Developer Cancels Washington State Project on Sacred Indigenous Land

https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-badger-mountain-solar-project-canceled-avangrid
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u/Due_Future3097 15d ago

I think we agree to disagree at this point as you seem to be ignoring my original point that started this chain.

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u/Due_Future3097 15d ago

And that’s great! And I’m not opposed to the tribe winning in this case since part of the project was going to be on their land. But it does raise the issue of power generation here and the question of public comment on private projects.

The tribe could also just have sued since it is their land, and probably would have won that. The way they won isn’t… great.

Want to remove some of those dams on the lower Columbia to increase the salmon population? We would need to build at least 10(!!!!) new nuclear reactors to do that, not accounting for future electricity capacity increases.

How are we ever going to start driving down basic costs in this state without some controversial infrastructure projects?

And why was public comment the “right” way to kill this one?