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To: craig crawford who wrote (415)7/2/2001 5:12:26 PM
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Environmentalists Square Off in Squirrel Squabble
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By Seth Lewis
CNSNews.com Correspondent
July 02, 2001

(CNSNews.com) - When a Pacific Northwest utility company announced in January it would build the world's largest wind power plant, seemingly everyone embraced the plan. Environmentalists touted its cleanliness. Politicians praised its ingenuity. And consumers welcomed its timing - coming at a moment when the West was feeling the pinch of energy-starved California. Who couldn't love wind power? Well, the Washington ground squirrels, for one. The rodents - which are protected under the Oregon Endangered Species Act but are not on the federal list - may be harmed by a 16-mile corridor of windmill construction along the Oregon-Washington border, according to a state-mandated study.
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Besides jeopardizing construction of almost a third of the Stateline Wind Generating Project's 450 windmills, the squirrel squabble has pitted environmentalists against an unlikely foe: themselves. "The same people who want the Endangered Species Act enforced also want green power," Republican state Rep. Jeff Kropf said. Now, the 300-megawatt project - which is expected to power 70,000 homes, or about a third of Portland - is temporarily stalled while bureaucrats wade through Oregon's complex endangered species law.
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