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Power lines planned from the plains to the Pacific, but not without resistance
September 13, 2009 by Rocky Barker in Idaho Statesman
September 13, 2009 by Rocky Barker in Idaho Statesman
Idaho Power Co. and Rocky Mountain Power, who want to snake a $7 billion network of 190-foot transmission towers across the West, face a tangled matrix of state and local barriers as challenging as the hardships faced by the pioneers who traveled much the same route on the Oregon Trail a century and a half ago. ..."These are projects everybody needs and nobody wants," said Lisa Grow, Idaho Power's vice president for transmission.
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