Northwest suffering power deficit ■ NORTHWEST RICHLAND. Wash (AP) — The Northwest, Ion# known for its cheap and abundant supplies of electricity, has suddenly found itself with a power deficit. A region that boasts 30 hydro electric dams — along with a nut tear reactor, coal and other generating plants — can no longer meet its own needs. Expensive imports are a major reason consumers in the Northwest far* rale hikes between M percent and 20 percent, according to the Bonneville Power Adminis tration. As recently os 1001. the region mode up of Washing ton. Oregon, Idaho and Western Montana exported $258 million worth of power while spending $21.1 million for imports, But the BI'A is projecting purchases of $250 million from other areas, chiefly California and Canada, in 1093. and sales of just $75 million in electricity. "The main reason for that is tho worst two consecutive water years since 1*144-1045." said Du Icy Maher, a spokeswoman for the BPA in Portland. Ore The BPA markets elei tricity from federal dams to utilities. The drought forces dams to he managed for the bene fit of endangered fish species more than electrical pro dut lion. Mahar said That means mountain snow melt usually stored for winter months must la1 dumped from reservoirs in the spring and summer to help fish migrate to the sea. she Mid. When winter'!i peak electrical season arrives, utilities have to import expensive electricity because there is lit tle water left in the reservoirs The Northwest gets two-thirds of its electricity from hydro dams, while the rest of the country gets just 10 percent from that source A major reason is the Columbia River system, which covers 258,(KH) square miles and is the 4th longest river in North Amerua at 1.214 miles Its dams produce an annual average of 18.500 megawatts of power. Hut it isn't enough The Seattle-based energy newsletter ('tearing Up recently reported that November 1992 was the first time in two decades the Northwest was a net importer of elec tricity. "Since dollars follow kilowatt hoifrs like night follows day. the region's current trade deficit is putting financial pressure on utilities." the newsletter said )ohn Fazio of the Northwest Power Planning Council, also in Portland, said it is too early to say there will tie a powerdefii.it for all of 1993. “But it certainly has changed from the past when that number was always positive," Fazio, a power analyst, said. In 198b the region produced 2,500 megawatts of sur plus power, enough to supply the needs of nearly 1.5 million people. Nude photos cause uproar in Ashland MEDFORD (AIM — The director of the commu nity access channel in Ashland says he didn't know a broadcast of student artwork contained nude photos until the telephone started ringing with complaints. "As soon as I realized what was going on, I pulled the tape." said Pete Belcastro, director of Ashland Cable Access The tape depicting artwork created by students at Southern Oregon State College was broadcast at 4:30 p m. on June 1J to 38.000 households in the Medford and Ashland ansa. "I was sitting at home watc hing television and when I flipped the channel 1 saw breasts Fill up the screen." said Cynthia Waugh of Medford. She was among about 30 people who called Ash land Cable Access or TCI Cablevision of Oregon to complain. A segment showed a woman covered with cutout photographs of various portions of female anatomy. Belcastro said the channel sometimes broadcasts material that some people would find objection able, but normally with warnings after 10 p.m. Continued from Page 1 Major brewers have introduced now liners and even separate brands lo i »urt the small breweries i uslomors Mi I lor Kosorvo Amber Ale is marketed as a Itritish style all barles ale. mm h like tbe products of the spot inlty breweries Rainier Brewing of Seattle, a division of (>. Ileilem.m Brewing Co. of Chicago, mokes Kmerald City Ale in its main brewery. But the IjiIhjI says it is made by tbe Kmerald Cits Brewing Co "Krneraid City Ale is brewed mui.h like the so called sjhh tally lamrs. using similar ingredients.” said Randy Smith, vie e president of (». Heiieman Brewing. But Widmer said main of tbe big breweries' entries in the specialty market art* just the same la-er in different pat kaging. The lug breweries are stireh capable of brewing beer every iiit as good as we do.” Widmer said. But the marketing and accounting departments are calling the shots Smith of Ueiloman agrees that the mark at for specialty l»?ers is limited "If Anheuser-Bus« ti browed -to million Iwirrels of Budwelser and made it tasto like the speciality product, I Mispm t they'd have to throw about half of it away," ho said Small brewers attribute their success to the qual ity of their produc t and the tin t that they he us their efforts on brewing, not marketing. Widmer and his brother Kob started in l‘tM-4 with ofxHit StiS.OOO and built their first brewery by hand using secondhand dairy and restaurant equipment In their first year, they made 1.100 .11 gallon bar rels of tx>er laist year, they made nearly JH.(MK) l>ar rels of beer in a brewery filled with high-tech professional brewing equipment Widmer wouldn't release exai t sales figures, hut at a S1 HO a barrel, sales were approximately $5 million. 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