Some good news from my home state:

Solar Developer Cancels Washington State Project on Sacred Indigenous Land

In typical colonial fashion, the developer appeared to have skirted rules that likely would have resulted in the proposal being rejected outright.

A 2024 investigation by High Country News and ProPublica found that Avangrid and a consultant it retained, Tetra Tech, had omitted key archaeological and cultural information from a state-mandated review of the site, which would have been used for a solar farm. Avangrid continued pushing the project despite a state archaeologist’s warning that the planned development would threaten significant historic sites and current ceremonial activity. An elected member of the Colville Tribal Business Council told the newsrooms at the time that the project would destroy roughly half the root vegetable harvest in the area.

After protests and reporting that surfaced this oily underhandedness, the developer pulled its proposal.

Good riddance 👏

We do need more solar power generation. We don’t need to steal (more) sacred land to get that done.