KGMI News
SPOKANE, Wash. – Energy experts and politicians from both parties are opposed to President Trump’s plan to sell off Bonneville Power Administration’s transmission lines.
Fred Huette is with the Northwest Energy Coalition, an organization that doesn’t always see eye to eye with BPA.
He tells Spokane Public Radio everyone should unite to fight the privatization of the publicly owned lines.
“We always have had our differences of opinion or complaints about what they do, but underneath it, it’s an agency that has been around for a long time, since the late 1930’s and is providing an incredibly important set of services and resources for the Northwest.”
Democratic Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and Republican Congresswomen Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Jaime Herrera Beutler are all opposed.
Alcoa’s aluminum smelter at Cherry Point depends on BPA power and might not be able to survive price increases expected to come with sale of the transmission lines.