Whidbey Environmental Action Network’s WEANie whackos Marianne Edain and Steve Erickson filed as intervenors in a lawsuit against the Snohomish County Public Utility District’s application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a permit to install two energy-producing turbines in Admiralty Inlet. The proposed location is west of Central Whidbey’s Keystone Harbor. http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/154229955.html?fb_comment_id=fbc_10151054804848777_23206780_10151058755468777#f2ed857baf7cc64
The WEANie whackos are concerned about the PUD’s proposal to construct the on-land portion of the system at Keystone Spit, which could impact a “relatively rare native plant community.”
According to the WEANie whacko website “Over two dozen native plant species are threatened with extinction from Whidbey Island. The plants they list are:
Congested Brodiaea, Musk Monkey Flower, Hooker’s Onion, Howell’s Brodiaea, Menzie’s Larkspur, Prairie Shooting Star, White Fawn Lily, Tiger Lily, Narrow- Leaf Desert Parsely, Laceleaf Microseris, Sicke Keeled Lupine, Purple-eyed Grass Widow, Prairie Goldenrod, Hyacinth Brodiaea, Scarlet Paintbrush, Showy Fleabane, Roemer’s Idaho Fescue, Chocolate Lily, Foothill Sedge, Blue Flag Iris, Death Camas, Hairy Chrysopsis, Rank Prairie, Prickly Pear Cactus, Garry Oak, and Tomcat Clover.”
