The letter to the Editor below reflects the feelings of a number of people about wind farms. They see them not as a clean source of renewable energy but as something that visually scars the landscape. Is there a way to both educate those who have a negative knee jerk response to wind farms (and solar plants) and reduce the visual impact of renewable energy facilities?
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Gorge wind farms are shameful
P. Tildesley – Register-Guard Letters to the Editor – April 1, 2009
As a semi-truck driver in this state, I get to travel and see a great many of the beautiful views and vistas around the Western states.
Bald eagles in northern Washington and windmill generator farms south of Los Angeles — very different but each has its merits. We need renewable energy sources, but we should not combine them.
At this very moment some mindless morons from Washington state are allowing a wind farm to be built, not a few miles back, but on the very lip of the Columbia Gorge, one of this state’s most beautiful assets.
I traveled to Pendleton last week and noticed the new generators going up. What an eyesore! I then came back from Yakima down Highway 97, and when I crossed the river at Biggs, I could look down on the construction at the very edge of gorge walls.
I am saddened that our legislators allow such violence to take place. It is nothing less than eco-terrorism. Shame on the lot of you.
