We are an organized group of rural landowners in the Dole Valley area of Clark County, Washington. We are not against Bonneville Power Administration. However, we are against BPA creating a new transmission corridor for its I-5 Corridor Reinforcement Project. We say BPA should run their 500 kV transmission lines on the land they already own rights to, along its West Alternative, where BPA planned
for expansion 70 years ago.
~We agree that~
Any route that is not built on the government-owned infrastructure that is already in place is government waste
Any route that is not built on the government-owned existing transmission corridor is anti-property rights
Asking citizens to shoulder the burden and pay any more in rates or taxes for this project than it would otherwise cost if built on the existing BPA-owned right of-way is irresponsible, and would amount to a completely unwarranted rate and tax increase. Building an additional new 70-mile transmission corridor would be a threat to private wells, while unnecessarily increasing the contamination to groundwater, rivers, streams, and wetlands from the herbicides BPA uses containing scientifically proven cancer-causing compounds.
