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Senate committee backs memorial and resolution asking federal and state officials to block Lava Ridge wind project
Summary
The committee sent House Joint Memorial 5 and House Concurrent Resolution 8 to the Senate floor, urging congressional and executive action to halt the Lava Ridge wind project over community and environmental concerns, including possible impacts to the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer and local roads.
The Senate Resources & Environment Committee voted to advance two measures asking federal and state officials to reconsider the Lava Ridge wind project, which sponsors said would place large industrial wind infrastructure on federal lands above a major aquifer.
Representative Lance Clow told the committee the measures—House Joint Memorial 5 and House Concurrent Resolution 8—are intended to register the legislature’s opposition and to urge the governor, attorney general and the state’s congressional delegation to press for…
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