County planner amends SEPA ruling

Whitman County’s industrial wind ordinance took another turn Tuesday when county planner Alan Thomson amended his earlier determination that the ordinance would not have a significant negative environmental impact under the State Environmental Policy Act.

Prosecutor Denis Tracy said the amendment to the SEPA ruling Thomson handed down in July would likely mean amendments to the court challenges of that ruling filed by Carolyn Kiesz of Thornton and Roger Whitten of Oakesdale.

“The thing that what they appealed is no longer the same SEPA decision,” said Tracy.

Kiesz vowed that she would proceed...