Several hundred people rallied against plans for a large-scale wind energy project in southern Idaho, hoping to convince federal agencies to reject the proposal.
"I hope that this is enough to put a plug in this and stop these projects from desecrating our public lands," Twin Falls County Commissioner Jack Johnson told the crowd Tuesday,The Lava Ridge wind farm would put up to 400 wind turbines on about 118 square miles of public land, including land near the Minidoka internment camp where more than 9,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II.
But the plan has drawn widespread opposition from government leaders, local ranchers and people who say the project endangers the Minidoka National Historic Site, which commemorates the thousands of people with Japanese ancestry who were ordered by the U.S. government into prison camps around the country starting in 1942.
The federal Bureau of Land Management began collecting public comment on a draft Environmental Impact Statement for the wind farm in January, and the public comment period ends April 20. "They come here because they thought we were a bunch of dumb hillbillies," Looper said. "They were going to slide it through … and they were going to walk out of here rich."
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