Green jobs have already arrived in Klickitat County in Eastern Washington and they are very welcome in this county on the Columbia River south of Walla Walla.  An article in the Yakima Herald-Republican and reproduced in the Seattle Times details some of the impact on the local economy of 14 wind-farm projects in what has become the Northwest wind capital.  There are increases in local jobs in construction, road-building, electrical wiring, clerical, and more.  Goldendale, county seat and the largest city in the county, is seeing stores, restaurants and motels doing good business.  

If all 14 of the current projects are built, "they will have the capacity to produce 2,661 megawatts, enough to power potentially more than 1 million homes". 

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