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Protesters rally at Portland City Hall against a controversial Portland General Electric transmission upgrade project in ...
Portland General Electric is disputing the city’s decision to strike down the next phase of a project that would remove ...
PGE exec promotes the idea that mediation can bring the utility and the city together on the rejected project, which would ...
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 ...
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 ...
Leaders with the Forest Park Conservancy, the Oregon chapter of the Sierra Club and the Bird Alliance of Oregon said PGE’s proposal could permanently destroy valuable habitat that’s just as ...
The groups and staff report questioned why PGE had failed to provide more information about future phases of the transmission ...
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 ...
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.
On Monday, PGE confirmed that the project would be moving forward with it’s third phase, including the removal of 376 trees on five acres near the north end of Forest Park. In a statement ...
"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 ...