promised they would never become — federal utilities that own and operate their own plants and have full utility responsibility. Obviously, local control which we now enjoy over consumer- owned utilities like the Eugene Water & Electric Board would not last long in an environment where the federal government bought or generated all the power in the region and then resold it according to its own ideas and priorities. So. despite the glaring failures of the nuclear power program to make good on the many promises that accompanied its promotion by the federal government in the late 1960’s, there are powerful vested interests that want to see this financially disasterous program continued in the 1980’s, and they have a plan to achieve this goal. Fortunately, we have here in Oregon the ingredients necessary to create another way to meet our energy needs in the 1980’s and stave off this attempt at federal takeover of our local electric utilities in order to insure continuation of the nuke power program . These ingredients are consumer-owned utilities, Article XI-D of the Oregon Constitution — which allows the state to become involved in bringing on supplies of electric power — and our land-use and planning laws which provide a vehicle for energy zoning and conservation ordinances to begin again from the “bottom up” on energy planning for the rest of this century. I call this combination the “Oregon Model” , and I will explain this and finally tell you the hilarious story of the triumph of the Emerald People's Utility District committee over Pacific Power & Light and their $300,000 campaign fund and their 28 mercenaries brought in from the PP&L insulation programs around the region to work against the EPUD campaign. John Bartels is a commissionerat the Eugene Water & Electric Board. NUKE NOTES © \979psltLTpOfXR>& ,<DUNNO, 1JUSTA , I WOKE UP ONE I MORN ING AND IT WAS THERE!; offic ia l i*\ Coluv*\bia 501 PAOX(X/ 1? a\occ TbJONTG£TCAHCER, POC., AY ? M iwiwy WxUx t o i w i w only 45 w WATCHIT.' SOUAR. , . pANELZ. K V? sb'll no/ known how oid of-the 3 - Mil<z I5 pW d fAH-AI NTA ___ _ »' vJork<X5 COt/fd ' NOTHIN' b^RONG- ^reat food.vifa, Prices b£ CUi by br ^ K 3 r panels w d h rad ium to make ^ r ^ y e - w /owl? fasts in v o lv in th o u - > o-P5&vvic<2-Members have proved - th a tn o ta / / ra d io ) active areas a re - to p e r ^ w e / ^ Standard p ro - t tn £ xaM H ■ ion study Ph^phie./ L \ \A FR 'so-psI' (Aii rr f a Pre r r *o ?) X ' ■* i A tlafurat 'Foods fostaumut 1 » f y iz zo Jw su ju ic e s &more 215 5W (o^ JM/detwemyiwrodi.) 2ZA -5^O 10tHUS vnwtkws. lf-0 14
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