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  • Dec 22, 2011
Members of the Oregon Joint Committee on Legislative Oversight on the Columbia River Crossing met with CRC staff Dec. 7 in the Metro council chambers in Portland.

Oregon lawmakers say CRC project may be too expensive

  • If concerns expressed over the Columbia River Crossing by a key Oregon legislative committee are any indication, the $10 billion* project could be a hard sell with lawmakers in Salem. That’s important to Clark County residents because the Oregon Legislature is expected to pick up $450 million of the project’s ...
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  • Issues
  • Dec 13, 2011
A choir of children, led by Nicole Karalekas (right), sing a song urging the BPA not to put transmission lines near children.

Property owners speak and children serenade message to BPA: Go away

  • 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 ...
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  • Issues
  • Dec 12, 2011
Jason Carpenter holds a sign protesting the fact that a proposed BPA line would impact his rural property.

Citizens rail against BPA transmission line proposal at meeting

  • 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 ...
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