Protesters rally at Portland City Hall against a controversial Portland General Electric transmission upgrade project in ...

City leaders tentatively granted an appeal against the project in April, before fully rejecting the proposal in May.

The council's decision reversed a hearings officer's initial approval, but PGE is seeking to go forward with the project to ...

Randy Franks is a senior project manager for PGE. Scott Fogarty is the executive director of the Forest Park Conservancy. They both join us to share their perspectives on the plan and what it coul ...

PGE exec promotes the idea that mediation can bring the utility and the city together on the rejected project, which would ...

Childs also said routing through Forest Park “is the least environmentally detrimental option” of all the alternatives PGE analyzed. Conservation groups had maintained that PGE failed to ...

Despite its status as a public park, Portland General Electric (PGE) wants to use a swath of the forest for a new utility project. PGE’s proposal represents the third phase of its Harborton ...

At that time, Portland permitting staff said PGE failed to fully assess alternatives to cutting through Forest Park. They also highlighted PGE’s plans to pursue additional grid projects that ...

All 12 Portland city councilors Thursday voted to tentatively grant the appeal from opponents of a Portland General Electric (PGE) plan to expand its transmission line footprint in Forest Park.

The group has encouraged the public to submit a public comment in support of Forest Park. PGE has already completed the project’s first two phases. The company stated that the ongoing project ...

Portland General Electric's Harborton Reliability Project is panned by Portland Permitting & Development staff report. One tech giant invested $600M in OR in 2024 Where PGE, seeing demand surge ...

"PGE is in a due-diligence phase ... The appealing thing about Forest Park is it gives people a chance to be in the forest even though they're in the middle of the city. Kassandra Omvik, a ...