New Renewable Energy Park & Oil Spill Becomes Old Hat

New Renewable Energy Park & Oil Spill Becomes Old Hat. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report. There is life after the dumps. Or I should say landfill. Ada County Idaho Commissioner Rick Yzaguirre says they are moving ahead with converting a landfill site into a renewable energy industrial park and they have been getting a lot of attention. YZAGUIRRE: A few years ago, probably 4 or 5 years ago we started putting in a gas to energy system where we actually capture the methane and burn it through these diesel generator and we've been generating electricity out there and it's been very successful. So as we were looking at all that and kind of considering what other options might be out there we thought about this industrial park idea. We've been approached from a number of vendors and companies that have cutting edge new ideas on what to do with garbage and how to manage it. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will have little effect on the November elections according to Travis Ridout, an associate professor of political science at Washington State University. Rideout says that essentially the images have become much less shocking to the public and in fact he calls them boring and that means the public paying less attention to the disaster. He notes that during the 2006 elections, Hurricane Katrina was considered a fairly old story, even though it happened just a year earlier. Now here's today's Washington Grange Report. (GRANGE) That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.