Windfarms an unnecessary eyesore

If you haven’t seen how ugly wind farms are you need to get out more.

Go south to Colfax or Dayton and look at how they have destroyed the beauty of the rolling hills of the Palouse and breaks of the Tucannon in Whitman and Columbia counties, respectively. Even along the Columbia Gorge, do you see how it has destroyed the natural beauty.

The only ones who win in this waste of dollars is the manufacturer of the turbine and the landowner upon which it sits.

The losers are the rest of us who have to look at the eyesores and the birds that are impacted (literally) by the blades.

And what happens to the broken, defective, or burned by wildfire, blades and turbines?

Where is the proof that wind farms are cost effective and actually benefit the clean energy agenda? We need proof.

We have the greatest renewable and clean energy anywhere in the nation right out our back door — hydropower. Why not add an additional power house to Grand Coulee Dam and add a fish ladder for what this project would cost, now and in the future?

Tom Schreck

Davenport