Rumors in the fall of 2019 that SDS was going to sell its mill in Bingen, Washington, and/or its 101,000 acres of timberland were confirmed by their press release on September 21, 2020. Beginning September 30, 2020, Sandra DeMent wrote a series of articles printed in The Goldendale Sentinel providing an informative historical background of the company and tentative proposals for its future. An interview with the new CEO, covered in the December 30, 2020 article, confirms that SDS intends to sell the entire company in the near future. The sale of SDS has potentially large, negative consequences for many aspects of life for the people and critters here in the Gorge.
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Friends of the White Salmon River
BOCC hearing on Tuesday, May 4 on the moratorium on commercial/industrial solar projects requiring conditional use permits. This is NOT a hearing on the EOZ, unfortunately.
The draft ordinance is a little hard to find at the moment. It is in the BOCC packet for the March 30, 2021 meeting, page 19. https://www.klickitatcounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/10316/3302021-BOCC-Agenda-Packet
If you want to comment at the meeting, you need to call ahead. Written comments can be submitted prior to the meeting as well.
Information on all this is in the public notice, here. https://klickitatcounty.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=314
The draft ordinance is a little hard to find at the moment. It is in the BOCC packet for the March 30, 2021 meeting, page 19. https://www.klickitatcounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/10316/3302021-BOCC-Agenda-Packet
If you want to comment at the meeting, you need to call ahead. Written comments can be submitted prior to the meeting as well.
Information on all this is in the public notice, here. https://klickitatcounty.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=314
Friends of the White Salmon River
Venturing out into the strange and scary tech world. I hope this link takes you to the newsletter we sent this morning. https://mailchi.mp/cf2bab05ab03/sds-update-and-lower-white-salmon-survey?e=[UNIQID]

SDS Update and Lower White Salmon survey
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Friends of the White Salmon River
More on the Goldendale pumped storage project. No easy answers on energy. We are on record opposing this project.

'It's Irreversible': Goldendale Green Energy Project Highlights A History Of Native Dispossession
The Goldendale Energy Storage Project would be built just outside Goldendale in Klickitat County. If built, it would be the largest pumped storage
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