It’s really that simple. If the Wiyot do not want this project on their ancestral and sacred land, then it should not proceed.
Climate change, climate chaos, is a real and terrifying existential threat to our society. But to have a company from out of the area, a company which is deeply invested in climate destroying energy elsewhere, to try to hold us hostage using the threat of climate change as their leverage is a bully’s gambit.
How our land is lived on is a matter of local concern. How we arrive at decisions should obviously give serious weight to the opinions and knowledge of the people who are part of this land, to the people who have thousands of years of experience of living here sustainably.
No more really needs to be said.
Yet it’s also true that we oppose the wind farm because of the callous disregard of Terra-Gen for the wild lives who will be destroyed by its ordinary function. One of the few Bald Eagles that we treated at Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bax was rescued in the Bear River Valley and released on Bear River Ridge. Bear River Ridge is a place of unsurpassed beauty and splendor and it is not ours to destroy so that skyscrapers might live.
