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DEQ: Let’s Take Another Look At An Early Shut Down Of Boardman

May 18, 2010
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PGE's coal-fired power plant near Boardman, OR. Photo from Brian Pasko.

The campaign to shut down Oregon’s only coal-fired power plant by 2014 just got some big news.

The Department of Environmental Quality says it will recommend that the state reject PGE’s proposal to close the Boardman power plant by 2020, and take some additional time to study alternatives for an early shut down.

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Clean Up Or Shut Down: New Pressure On The Boardman Coal Plant

May 4, 2010
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PGE's coal fired Boardman Power Plant. Photo from Ted Timmons

Environmental groups hope they’ve found another way to force an early closure of Oregon’s only coal fired power plant, the PGE facility near Boardman.

The idea is to make PGE to spend so much money on pollution controls, the utility will decide that shutting down Boardman will be cheaper than cleaning it up.

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