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Media Summary
Contact Carol Winkel
for more information. Also see archive.
Overview for December - September 2000
A number of stories about the Council's power study, released in
mid-October, set the stage for continuing concerns about the region's
energy supply. In November a feature story appeared in the Sunday
Oregonian on the potential for an energy shortage and high prices this
winter that was picked up by the AP wire and appeared in papers throughout
the region. Governor Kitzhaber's salmon plan received coverage in
mid-November, but by early December, and with the threat of a coming cold
front, print, radio and television media were focused on electricity
supplies both in the Northwest and California.
September 2000
Nuclear Plant Recovers Operating Costs 3 Months Into Fiscal
Year--Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Walla Walla, WA
(Sep 22)
AP story cited in an earlier summary on the financial success of the
Northwest's only commercial nuclear power plant due to the summer's
high wholesale electricity prices. Also appears in The Daily World,
Aberdeen, WA.
Study Finds No Smoking Gun for High Rise in Energy Prices--Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA (Sep 21)
AP story cited in an earlier summary on the findings of the Council's
power study. The story quotes Dick Watson, ?A report to be
released next month indicates the surge in market prices was the result of
tight electricity supplies in the region aggravated by a combination of
unusual circumstances, Dick Watson, the four-state planning council's
power generation expert, said Wednesday.? |
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