Wind Energy Information

Background

  1. Overview of Commercial Wind Ordinance Creation (PDF)

Presentations

  1. Siting Guidance for Wind Turbines - 2025-09-09 (PDF)
  2. Wind Projects in Whitman County Perspective and Experience from Tri-Cities - 2025-09-24 (PDF)
  3. Wind Turbines and Human Health Impacts - 2025-10-15 (PDF)
  4. Wind Turbines and Human Health Impacts Dropbox Link - 2025-10-15 (PDF)

SEPA Rules - Chapter 197-11 WAC

Research Studies, Articles & Publications

  1. ACP - Property Values Land Based Wind Turbines Fact Sheet 2023-12 (PDF)
  2. ACP - Utility-Scale Wind Energy Conversion Systems Model Ordinance Framework (PDF)
  3. ACP - Wind Turbines and Public Health Fact Sheet 2022-11 (PDF)
  4. Avista - Powering the Future - 2025-04-16 (PDF)
  5. Canada - Wind Turbine Noise Study (PDF)
  6. Clarifications on the Design and Interpretation of Conclusions from Health Canada's Study on Wind Turbine Noise and Health 2018-02-01 (PDF)
  7. Carteret County North Carolina Wind Energy Facility Ordinance (PDF)
  8. Clean Energy Assessments - Whitman County Assessor (PDF)
  9. Columbia Law School - False Claims About Wind Energy (PDF)
  10. Dave Gibney Agenda Plan 2025-06-20 (PDF)
  11. Ernest Orlando Lawrence BNL - Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values (PDF)
  12. Health-Based Audible Noise Guidelines Account for Infrasound and Low-Frequency Noise Produced by Wind Turbines 2015 (PDF)
  13. ICBEN - Noise as a Public Health Problem - 2017-06-18 (PDF)
  14. International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health - Infrasound and Wind Turbines (PDF)
  15. Julie Clarkson-Gulick 2025-60-18 (PDF)
  16. Mark Bastasch CH2M Hill - Memorandum on Noise 2009-09-10 (PDF)
  17. Mihai Andrei - Wind Turbine Noise Studies 2025-03-12 (PDF)
  18. National Institute for Public Health - Health Effects Related to Wind Turbine Sound an Update 2020 (PDF)
  19. Palouse Wind - Final Environmental Impact Statement - 2011-03-25 (PDF)
  20. Palouse Wind - Final Environmental Impact Statement Responses to Public Comments - 2011-03-25 (PDF)
  21. Potential of Wind Turbines to Elicit Seizures (PDF)
  22. Skamania County Land Use Appel Hearing - Nina Pierpont Examination 2009-02-22 (PDF)
  23. Sumner Maine Wind Turbine Ordinance (PDF)
  24. Umatilla County Oregon Ordinance 2012-04 (PDF)
  25. Wind Turbines and Health - A Critical Review of the Scientific Literature (PDF)

Comments & Suggestions 

  1. Art Swannack - Thoughts regarding moratorium wind code changes and what is legal. 2025-03-04 (PDF)
  2. Carol Black - Critical Areas Letter 2025-04-23 (PDF)
  3. Carol Black - Concerns About Website Documents 2025-04-28 (PDF)
  4. Carol Black - Comments on Planning Commision Meeting 2025-05-07 (PDF)
  5. Lien - Wind Ordinace Suggestions 2025-03-05 (PDF)
  6. PNWE - Ensuring Reliable Affordable and Clean Energy for Our Future - 2025-06-04 (PDF)
  7. Save the Palouse - Wind Ordinace Suggestions 2025-03-05 (PDF)
  8. Tom Thompson - Letter to Whitman Co. Planning Commission 2025-06-03 (PDF)
  9. Tom Thompson - Letter to Whitman Co. Planning Commission 2025-07-02 (PDF)
  10. VanNess Feldman LLP Memorandum - 2025-07-16 (PDF)

Responses 

  1. Low-Frequency Noise EIS Palouse Wind Project (PDF)