The Bonneville Power Administration has adopted a 9 percent average wholesale power rate increase, as well as an 11 percent spike to transmission rates. ....... BPA says the transmission rate increases are necessary for improvements to infrastructure and for mandatory compliance and security requirements. The power rates increase stems from higher costs to operate and maintain the federal hydroelectric system, higher costs to fund existing long-term agreements for the fish and wildlife mitigation program and because revenue from selling surplus power has shrunk.Putting it more concretely: Dams are faced with two different types of terrorist threat.
Federal wildlife officials plan to dispatch hunters into forests of the Pacific Northwest starting this fall to shoot one species of owl to protect another that is threatened with extinction.Branding again. For totally arbitrary and false and antiscientific "reasons", the Gaian mass murderers have decided that spotted owls are the cool brand and barred owls are the off-brand. We must shoot all the off-brand owls to give a complete monopoly to the cool brand owls.
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