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Windy Point/Windy Flats wind farm, on matters relating to the project while
practicing with the law firm of K&L Gates LLP. Most of the material included
in this chapter was gathered through e-mail correspondence with Cannon Power
president Gary Hardke and K&L Gates attorney Brian Knox. Some material also
originated from informal interviews with other parties involved in the project or
from the author's own experiences while working on the project.
3 For a general description of Klickitat County's transition from conditional use
permit review for wind farms to its present Energy Overlay Zone scheme, see
generally Keith Hirokawa, Local Planning for Wind Power: Using Programmatic
Environmental Impact Review to Facilitate Development , 33 Zoning and
Planning Law Report 1, 4-5 (2010).
4 See id.
5 See Troy Rule , Federal Stimulus Success at Windy Point , Seattle Times
(May 10, 2010), available at www.cannonpowergroup.com/media/news-articles/
federal-stimulus-success-at-windy-point/ (last visited Dec. 6, 2013).
6 Friends of the Gorge website, available at www.gorgefriends.org/section.
php?id=9 (last visited Dec. 9, 2013).
7 For a map showing the Yakama Nation's reservation lands and ancestral lands,
visit the tribe's website at www.ynwildlife.org/tribalhunting.php (last visited Dec.
10, 2013).
8 See Cannon Power Group website, www.cannonpowergroup.com/wind/projects/
wp-wf/ (last visited Dec. 10, 2013).