The two lease sites for the development of wind farms off the Humboldt County coast went for $331.5 million in yesterday’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management auction, the first ever held for areas on the West Coast. The highest bidders were RWE Offshore Wind Holdings at $157.7 million for 63,338 acres and California North Floating, […]
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Interior Department Removes Derogatory Term from Humboldt Sites, Hundreds of Others Nationwide
The Department of the Interior announced today that replacement names have been approved for hundreds of valleys, streams, ridges, summits and other geographic features across the nation, including several in Humboldt County, that contained a derogatory word for Native women. The final vote by the Board on Geographic Names — the federal body tasked with […]