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The Bonneville Power Administration has created an online map of its proposed high-voltage transmission line running through Southwest Washington. The agency designed the map using Google maps ...
The Bonneville Power Administration has produced a detailed interactive map showing where each tower is likely to be located on BPA’s proposed 500-kilovolt transmission line through Clark and ...
Power lines loom near Bonneville Dam on the Oregon side of the Columbia River. The Bonneville Power Administration is trying to determine a route for a 500-kilovolt transmission line between new ...
BPA is evaluating potential routes for a proposed new 500-kilovolt transmission line to reinforce the power grid in southwest Washington. The last high voltage transmission line along this section ...
The Bonneville Power Administration said Wednesday it is moving forward with more than $2 billion in multiple transmission substation and line projects necessary to reinforce the grid, including a ...
Transmission lines could be put underground, but according to the BPA website, this would cost between $8 million to $12 million per mile, at least 10 times the cost of above-ground structures.
Bonneville Power Administration announced today that it will wait until spring to release the environmental impact statement on the agency's plan to place a 500-kilovolt transmission line through ...
According to BPA studies, without a new line we could experience brownouts or blackouts in our area. The BPA is scheduled to release its environmental impact study in December or January.
Multiple activist groups will be requesting that the Bonneville Power Administration extends its March 1 deadline by at least 90 days for public comments on building a transmission line as part of ...
GOLDENDALE — Hitching two bales of hay to his beat-up 1992 Dodge Ram pickup, Brian Fletcher drags breakfast to his cows across the wind-swept ranch t ...
YAKIMA, Wash. — Bonneville Power Administration will spend roughly $2 billion in federal stimulus dollars to enhance power transmission lines, upgrade aging infrastructure at hydropower dams and ...