20140912Comment.pdf

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FAX 205—334—3762 HJAHD
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Total pages including cover:
Date:September 12 2014
Raseti for objection:Tel.:[phone]
208-699-6507 (cell)
Sample survey shows
unanimous unpopular Avista Rate FAX:[phone]
increase.
Message:
The undersigned is a 92-year old WWII
veteran,a licensed and registered
protesSAQS&engineer retired (Metallurgical/Environmental Engineer).
The State of Idaho being such as it is I refer to recently enacted
legislation critised by the Sierra Club.However,I shall submit my
suggestion and opinion knowing full well that it will fall on deaf
ears,particularly in Governor Otter’s office,
Bear in mind that Avista owns and operates two (2)or three(S)coal
mining operation for its power plants.The emissions often excede
set standards.What baffles most engineers is why the company often
goes unpunished,often with only a warning.
I draw attention to Canada.There are reasons why there are no
private utilities such as Avista.The utility in every Province
and Teritory from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast is state
owned and operated without a cent of subsidy at cost plus 10%.
FDR ran flIt upon that basis.
The enclosures are self-explanatory.Every one knows Enron’s
reputation.I aroused the interest of the Oregon Attorney General
with a mailing of the Manitoba letter.upon hostile takeover of POE
by Enron,the rates immediately increased conjiderably.The Oregon
legislature actually passed a unanimous bill placing PGE under State
ownership and control.The bill was only to be vetoed by “Democratic”
Governor Kulangoski N I need not comment further,
I trust that the Commison will find the enclosures and comments
interesting.To emulate Canada’s thinking would be too much to ask I!
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sincerely
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..A.Wolovich,P.Eng.(B.C.)PIeviously Manitoba and Ontario.
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Manitoba
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Industry,Trade and Mines Winnipeg Manituba,CANADA
Enemy Development Inithabve R30SH8
1200-155 Canton Sliest
Phone:[phone]
Fax:[phone]
email:&[e-mail]
June 18,2002
Mr.Ed Wolovich,PEng,
MetaflurgisVEnv.Engineer
2725 NE Crestvlew Drive
Unit 204
Newport,OR 7355
U.SA
Dear Mr-Wolovich:
Sorry for the delay in responding to you with the information that you had requested.
I am enclosing a copy of some information that we regularly hand out to prospective businesses
explaining our electricity rates.We have the lowest published rates for both industrial and residential in
all of North America.I have also enclosed information to support this statoment.Should there be full-
scale deregulation In Manitoba and If Manitoba Hydro were a private company,there would be massive
increases In prices.
Manitoba Hydro contributes in many ways to the Manitoba treasury and the Manitoba economy.
Government does not subsidize them in any way.
I hope this Information helps.I would encourage you to go onto the Internet to Manftoha Hydro’s website
www.hydro.mh.ca.There you will find more information.
Yours truly,
Shaun Loney
Director of Energy Policy
Energy Development Initiative
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Enclosures
c.The Honourable Gary Doer .-
Honourable Greg Selinger
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the Pro(eedings and picked apartorauctionedtothehighestbidder.
PGE,as a subsidiary,is not in-chided in the bankmptcy filing,and Enron has said It remainscommittedtotheutilitv4spro
poised sale to Northwest Nawni
Gas for $2.98 billion.Still,Enron’sll,the largest corporate collapse
in (iS.history,has resulted in somanyuglysurprises,no one Is certainwhatwillhappen.
State regulators said a dlsrnan
thug of PE Is unlikely,and thattheproposaltosellPGEintacttoPortland-based NW Natural remainsontrackMembersoftheOregonPublicUtilityCommissionwillbebriefedtodaybyattorneyswhohavebeensortingthroughporenthilbankruptcyrepercussions.
Meek valued POE’s hydropowerp1mmandtransmissionlinesatabout$2 billion.Be said the statecouldbuytheassetsfor“a fewhundredmllhlon*by exercising ftspowersofeminentdomainandbydepreciatingtheassetsoverthe50-odd years the dams and powerlineshavebeeninuse,
Meek said state legislatorsshouldtakethefbistepstoward
acquiring PGE during a special sessioninFebrway.The Oregon Conshrutfonallowsthestatetosetnoa
state power authority to buy,developandcontrolhydropowerplantsandtodistributeelectricity,lie said.
Coy.John Kitthaber and legislatorsplantocallaspecialsessionsometimenextmonthtoaddressthestate’s budget shortibli.NeitherKltrhahernorkeylawmakershave
expressed an interest in buying audlir.
POE officials were not immediatelyavailablethrcomment,buttheyhavesaidtheyareconfidentatakeoverbyNWNaturalwillcontinueasplannect
“Management cannot predictwithcertaintywhatimpactthe
hankmpzcyot Enron may h n
POE,”the utility stared in documentsfliedDec.4 with the SecuritiesandExchangeCommissiorL
“However,It does believe that theassetsandliabilitiesofPOEwillnotbecomepartoftheEnronestateInbankruptcyandthereforedoesnotexpecttheEatonbankruptcyptoceedingstohaveamaterialeffectenPOE’s operations.”
Paul Graham,an assistant attorneygeneralfortheOregonDepart-ImeatofjusticeandtheleadcounselforthePublicUtilityCornmjsisbn,said he will meet today withregulatorstogivethemanUpdateottwherethebankruptcyproceedingsmiahtlead.
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Nader:Emon collapse
c)O1A could cause sell-off
of PGE,double rates
V NADER By GAIL KINSEY HILL
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1/nt .Consumer advocate flaiph Nader on Tuesday warned Ore.
/3...ELSEWHERE gonians that the Baron bankruptcy could force the piece-by
l i!’.A&P piece sell-off of.Portland General Electric hydropower plants
Si U-”,-•Top officials of.and transmission lines,with dire consequences for the utility’s
fi ytt /,..—Arthur Andersen 730,000 ratepayets.
.iLks “%\.will receive sub-“Monthlybiils could easilydouble or triple,TM Nader saidof the
“‘v.i Li-k peenas from Con-bankruptcy’s potential effect on PCE,an Eaton subsidiary,
I w’-,,-X )W-gress to testify ‘9rlus is not theoreticaL”‘
\‘)‘iY7,4fl about destruction Nader,joined by local consumer advocates Daniel Meek and
‘:4\/’‘of Enron docu-floyd Marbet at a downtown Portland news conference,main
Q--\1)$,1 ments/Paqe One rained that more bad news awaits POE customers,recently hit
U •‘Vd 4’Members of an with SO pei’cent to 50 percentincreases in their utility rates.The‘1”0,,t’\‘QlN accountino ethics activists called on the stare to buy POE assets,thus “peservlng
AU i,,}J 1board reslon in their value tbr Oregon ratepayers”and preventing further rare
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to alter oversight Since Enron filed for Chapter ii resirncturthg Dec.2,ques
1.1’x n of corporate (ti0115 have persisted over whether 2GB would be dragged Into
.qu I accountIng/CS j)Please see NAOEH4 Page 03
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,Nader:State says PGE sale toNW Natural is on track
in theory”the bankruptcycourt ,I-le said the interests pf POE cut
.could call for a sell-off of POE as-tomers,as wells as Enron credItor
sets,Graham said.‘But this is not need to.be talen into considert
yourtypical bankruptcycase,”don.
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