Give the gang at Coal Free Oregon some credit for coming up with new ways to keep their cause in the news.
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Give the gang at Coal Free Oregon some credit for coming up with new ways to keep their cause in the news.
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The news must have landed at PGE like a ton of coal. Oregon DEQ says its looking at three options for an early closure of PGE’s coal-fired power plant at Boardman. They call on the utility to spend millions more to keep the plant running, or shutting it down a lot earlier than PGE...
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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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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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There aren’t many places where renewable energy is as popular as it is here in Oregon.
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While Congress dithers on climate change legislation, a new report says we’re actually in pretty good shape for the upcoming global warming talks in Copenhagen. The reason? The report says several states are showing strong leadership on global warming and that’s giving the U.S. a head start on reducing carbon emissions. Although the report...
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With possibly two new high voltage power lines coming to NW Oregon and SW Washington, here’s a reminder that we’re not the only ones dealing with these issues. For more than a year, Idaho Power has been trying to find a route for a 500 kilovolt transmission line from Boardman, Ore. to Hemingway, Idaho....
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A reminder from the Oregonian that PGE is holding a open house tomorrow about a proposal to build a new 500 kilovolt power line from Boardman to Salem. Actually, they’ve been holding these open houses for the past couple of weeks, but this one is in Portland. Power lines are always controversial because of...
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Meet Steve Wick. He’s a Yamhill County hazelnut farmer who’s so old-school he still calls them filberts. He’s an anti-LNG activist, self described “big mouth”, and if all goes according to plan, a soon to be viral video sensation Wick stars in a new YouTube video (see below) that’s trying to get people’s attention...
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Three more pieces of the environmental agenda received final passage today and are on their way to Governor Kulongoski. Not a bad day considering the four victories racked up over the weekend. Meanwhile, enviros took a big loss on a renewable energy bill. So as we used to say in televsion, let’s go right...
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