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Northwest Fires Knock out Two BPA Lines

The U.S. Pacific Northwest’s wildfires continued their swath ofdestruction as the week wound to a close, with blazes so hot thattwo major power lines that deliver electricity to the Northwestmelted. Electricity service was back on Friday afternoon, saidofficials, after an electronic system designed to detect problemslike excessive heat switched service to back-up lines.

August 14, 2000

NJ, Capitol Hill Knock FERC’s Pipe Ruling

The fallout from FERC’s unpopular decision on theSupplyLink-Independence-MarketLink gas pipeline projects continuedthroughout most of last week, first with New Jersey pledging totake the Commission to court over MarketLink and then with the mostpowerful energy lawmaker on Capitol Hill publicly accusing theCommissioners of trying to undermine the construction of theproposed $678 million Independence Pipeline to the Northeast.

May 1, 2000
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