"Coordination" is the game changer that levels the playing field. The little known process requires the BPA to satisfy citizen concerns with their Power Transmission route and the CRC bureaucracy is required to satisfy citizen Light Rail tolling project objections.
The controversy on where to place 11 huge electrical towers – larger than any currently seen in the city – has ignited potential stakeholders who examine every nuance of the Bonneville Power Administration’s work. So it was odd that none of them attended Monday afternoon’s workshop where BPA representatives updated ...
In our ongoing coverage of the Bonneville Power Administration’s plan to place a new, 70-mile power line through Clark County, COUV.COM will feature a number of different perspectives of people throughout the county who stand to be impacted. Ray Richards, a tree farmer and board member of the group A ...
In our ongoing coverage of the Bonneville Power Administration’s plans to place a power line that stretches 70 miles through Clark County, COUV.COM will feature perspectives from various county residents who could be affected. Today we talk with Ray Richards, a Vancouver resident whose family has owned a working tree ...
Emotions ran high in Battle Ground at a community meeting about placement of a new electrical transmission line the Bonneville Power Administration wants to build in Cowlitz and Clark Counties. The message at last week’s meeting was clear and was even delivered in a song: Go away, BPA. At issue ...
An often testy crowd of nearly 300 packed the Battle Ground Community Center last Thursday to oppose the Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA) plan to construct a 70-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line through Clark County. The project has been a source of controversy ever since it was announced to the public in ...
In the final segment of our four-part “BPA, Another Way,” series, Clark County Today host David Madore wraps up his conversation with Washington State Rep. for District 18, Ed Orcutt (R – Kalama), and Terry Constance, of Another Way BPA, about of the Bonneville Power Administration’s plans for constructing a ...
In part three of our four-part series, “BPA, Another Way,” host David Madore continues his conversation with Washington State Representative for District 18, Ed Orcutt (R – Kalama), and Terry Constance, of Another Way BPA, about the realities of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) constructing a new 500,000 volt transmission line ...
In Part II of our “Another Way BPA” series, David Madore continues his conversation with Terry Constance and Washington State Representative for District 18, Ed Orcutt, (R – Kalama), about two different alternative routes that the Bonneville Power Administration could consider for its proposed 500 KV power line from Castle ...
In part one of an exclusive four-part interview, Clark County Today host David Madore speaks with guests Terry Constance, of Another Way BPA, and Washington State Rep. Ed Orcutt, 18th District, (R – Kalama), regarding their efforts to encourage the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to consider building a proposed 500 KV power ...
The Bonneville Power Administration is in the planning process for the potential construction of a new electrical transmission line in Southwest Washington. As part of that planning process, the BPA expects to release a draft environmental impact statement later this year, so Doug Johnson and Mark Korsness from BPA stopped by couv.com to talk about the planning process in the latest episode of Cla