An Electricity Crunch May Force the Nation into Tough Tradeoffs
Wall Street Journal
October 10, 2000
At the height of Californias electricity crunch this summer, PG&E Corp. wanted to anchor a floating power plant in San Francisco Bay to help avert potential brownouts. Environmentalists objected, arguing that the plants four jet turbines would spew noxious fumes into the air and could spill fuel into the bay. "Conservation is the cheapest source of power," says David Bayles, a director of the Pacific Rivers Council environmental group in Eugene, Oregon.
