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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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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This weekend, Environment Oregon released its take on PGE’s proposal to close the coal-fired power plant near Boardman. The group has been active in the campaign to close Boardman by 2014. PGE’s most current plan is to shut it down by 2020. The EO statement calls the announcement, “A major milestone on Oregon’s path...
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In the campaign to shut down the coal-fired power plant at Boardman, the Oregon Sierra Club isn’t ready to declare victory. Doing so might have been understandable. PGE’s decision to close Boardman by 2020, two decades ahead of schedule, is major news. It’s an acknowledgment that its cheaper to shut down the plant early, rather...
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With a combination of holiday gimmick and serious talk, two of Oregon’s leading environmental groups are kicking off a new drive to shut down PGE’s coal-fired power plant near Boardman. The gimmick? Having one of the members dress up as Santa Claus, and proclaiming that the Boardman power plant had been “very naughty” for...
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In the past two weeks, Portland General Electric has held several public meetings about its plans for a new high voltage power line. Called Cascade Crossing, PGE wants to build a 200-mile, double circuit, 500-kilovolt power line from Boardman to Salem. Along the way, it crosses two national forests and the Warm Springs reservation....
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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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One of the biggest sources of air pollution in the state, the PGE coal-fired power plant near Boardman, may soon undergo a very costly environmental makeover. Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality wants PGE to install more than $470 million worth of pollution controls by 2018. The goal? Cut emissions of nitrous oxide and sulphur...
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Portland General Electric says it’s the #1 utility in the country for how much renewable energy it sells to residential customers. PGE says it sold almost 530 million kilowatt hours of renewable power to residential customers in 2008, an 18% increase over 2007. According to Department of Energy statistics, that’s more than any other...
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We’re watching today’s hearing on Senate Bill 80, legislation that will put Oregon on a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state. The bill tells agencies and industry to develop plans that will meet goals of reducing emissions at least 10% below 1990 levels by the year 2020, and at least 75%...
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