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Nuclear and coal plants
on horizon for Northwest
Stories by
KATHLEEN MONJE
Of the Emerald
The eigth Northwest Energy
Policy Project (NEPP) report, re
leased Thursday, predicts that at
the lowest likely growth-rate con
dition the region will need five new
nuclear and two new coal-fired
power plants by the year 2000.
The report also concludes that
more expensive energy supplies
will cause Northwest energy
prices to rise substantially, even
though future demand is expected
to grow at a significantly slower
pace than in the past.
The NEPP studies are spon
sored by a commission composed
of governors John Evans of Idaho,
Bob Straub of Oregon and Dixy
Lee Ray of Washington, with co
chairer Patrick Vaughn as the
presidential appointee. The
studies are designed to give the
governors and state Legislatures
information, which they can use in
planning for future energy needs.
The report, called "Energy
Supply and Environmental Im
pacts,” projects energy demand
under three different growth-rate
scenarios; low, moderate and
high energy-growth conditions.
The report considers the mod
erate scenario to be the most
likely. It would require nine new
coal-fired and 13 new nuclear
power plants by the end of the
century, NEPP says.
Under high growth-rate condi
tions, the report predicts, “as
many as 28 new coal-fired and 21
new nuclear power plants might
be needed.” The report notes that
successful conservation policies
would reduce the need for
generating capacity under any
scenario.
Because cheaper hydroelectric
power resources have already
been fully developed, the more
expensive thermal and nuclear
sources will cause price increases
for residential consumers of from
one to two percent per year more
than the current rate of inflation.
Natural gas, coal and petroleum
prices will also rise as fast orfaster
than inflation, because of more
imports of those products.
Alternative energy sources,
such as solar and wind generation
are not mentioned in the “supply”
section of the report, but the “im
pact” section states that “en
vironmental impacts from uncon
ventional energy sources such as
solar, wind and geothermal are
less than the impacts from con
ventional energy sources, al
though all energy sources would
produce some adverse environ
mental impacts."
Weaver deplores log exports
Jim Weaver, 4th District Demo
cratic Congressman, has plans to
stop the sale of National Forest
timber to companies that export
logs.
Weaver, chairer of the House
forests subcommittee, says his
proposed bill states, “If you have
so many of your own logs you can
afford to export them, nothing in
this bill will prohibit you from doing
so. But, stay out of the competition
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for National Forest timber. This
timber should go to mills which
depend on public timber for their
source of supply ."
The brunt of the timber supply
problem in the region fails on the
smaller independent mills,
Weaver says, citing the closures
of six such mills in the 4th District
during the last two years.
“A log exported is a log lost to
our domestic supply,” according
to Weaver. “I am proposing a bill
to protect buyers of federal timber
from the effects of exports.”
His bill will not affect export
practices that do not have a dras
tic effect on domestic needs, such
as the overseas sale of Port Or
ford Cedar, Weaver says. The bill
will give the Secretary of Agricul
ture, who administers the Forest
Service, authority to decide,
through hearings, what exports
are affected under the measure.
The proposed bill is aimed
primarily at Japanese log imports;
Weaver points out the value of the
yen increased 20 percent over the
purchasing power of the U.S. dol
lar in 1977. “This means that the
Japanese products we import
are costing us more and the logs
we are exporting are costing the
Japanese less every day,”
Weaver says.
“Already the Japanese demand
has pushed the price of timber
beyond what many of our mills can
afford and some have dosed,'
Weaver adds. “If prices are
pushed up $50 or more per
thousand board feet, it could eas
ily squeeze profit margins into the
red for even more mills."
In addition to helping the reg
ional timber industry, Weaver
says the bill should induce more
investment in the forest products
industry to meet the Japanese
demand for processed lumber,
and provide a lift to the area's
economy by increasing employ
ment.
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