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Senate Children and Youth Committee hears Washington lawmaker warn of economic, wildlife and grid risks from large wind projects
Summary
Representative Dye testified to the Arkansas Senate Children and Youth Committee that Washington state clean-energy mandates and project subsidies have produced large revenues and local dislocations; she urged careful assessment of wildlife, fire risk, grid capacity and tax structures. (No formal actions taken.)
Senator King convened the Senate Children and Youth Committee and invited Representative Dye of Washington to discuss local impacts of large wind-turbine projects. Representative Dye said she was presenting lessons from Washington, where she described a suite of laws — including the Clean Energy Transformation Act and the Climate Commitment Act — that she called the policy engine behind extensive wind and solar development.
"It spread the cost of climate onto, you know, everybody gets to pay their fair share," Representative Dye said, and she testified that the linked allowance market had generated about $1,146,000,000 in revenue in its first year. She argued those costs and other incentives can shift benefits away from local rural economies and toward developers and large investors.
Dye used the announced closure or relocation of a Lamb Weston plant in…
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