First Wind impact draft available for review

A study of the environmental impacts of First Wind’s proposed wind farm is available today, Thursday.

Boston-based First Wind, through its Palouse Wind offshoot, has applied to build a 55-turbine wind farm on Naff Ridge and Granite Butte northwest of Oakesdale.

Planner Alan Thomson Tuesday told the Gazette that CH2M Hill, the engineering firm hired by First Wind to prepare the statement, will deliver copies of the statement to the planning office Thursday morning.

Among other potential areas of impact, the draft version will address how the project impacts area wildlife, stormwater, sound and...