Post by blackcrowheart on Oct 3, 2007 13:14:53 GMT -5
Yakama Nation negotiates power deal
"The Grant County Public Utility District commissioners are discussing a
proposed settlement with the Yakama Nation to trade power at cost for an
alliance. Nearly four years ago the Yakama Nation began an electricity utility. The
newly formed Yakama Power was to attempt taking over the Priest Rapids dam
license in effort to find power to supply residences on the reservation.
But, they did nothing to take the license away from Grant County PUD and
instead filed a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
concerning power sales agreements. This was after the PUD signed agreements to
sell all of the power not being used in Grant County.
FERC dismissed their complaint and Yakama Power appealed through the federal
9th Circuit Court in San Francisco.
What they wanted was to buy power too."
"The Grant County Public Utility District commissioners are discussing a
proposed settlement with the Yakama Nation to trade power at cost for an
alliance. Nearly four years ago the Yakama Nation began an electricity utility. The
newly formed Yakama Power was to attempt taking over the Priest Rapids dam
license in effort to find power to supply residences on the reservation.
But, they did nothing to take the license away from Grant County PUD and
instead filed a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
concerning power sales agreements. This was after the PUD signed agreements to
sell all of the power not being used in Grant County.
FERC dismissed their complaint and Yakama Power appealed through the federal
9th Circuit Court in San Francisco.
What they wanted was to buy power too."