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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







No. 17

NORTHWEST POWER MODEL PLAN
            


               

The Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act was passed in 1980 to encourage energy conservation to promote the development of renewable energy resources, to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife of the Columbia River and its tributaries, and to provide for public participation in electric power planning in the Pacific Northwest, involving the states of Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho.


The Model Plan of the Northwest Conservation Act Coalition published in May of 1982 demonstrates that wise conservation planning can save consumers money and will protect the environment.  Many conservation and citizens groups in the four concerned states, are members of the coalition, including the Sierra Club, the Leagues of Women Voters of the four states, state environmental councils, labor unions and rate payer groups, and others.


A brief summary of the Model Plan to further the objectives of the Act is as follows:


Maximizing use of environmentally acceptable and cost effective energy conservation and renewable resources, through:


a.  Solar energy, environmentally acceptable small scale hydroelectric power projects, geothermal installations, wind machines and photovoltaic cells;


b.  Retrofitting existing homes, commercial buildings, industrial processes and irrigation systems, and ensuring such measures are included in new buildings, processes and systems;


c.  Avoiding unnecessary thermal development;


d.  Optimizing regional economic development through the promotion of labor intensive energy resources;


e.  Assuring that financial assistance and local development provisions are made available to those most in need;


f.  Protecting the natural environment, including the fish and wildlife resources of the region; and


g.  Ensuring the protection of democratically controlled local public power systems in the Northwest.


The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs urges the Northwest Power Planning Council to seriously consider the Model Plan of the Northwest Conservation Act Coalition and adopt substantially its proposals.


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