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Resale of the Columbia River Treaty Downstream Power Benefits: One Road from Here to There

Resale of the Columbia River Treaty Downstream Power Benefits: One Road from Here to There”Joint Canada-United States development of the Columbia River System was made possible by the Columbia River Treaty. To finance the construction of the storage projects it would be required to build, Canada sold its share of the additional hydroelectric power benefits made possible by the Treaty to the United States. That power will be completely repatriated to Canada by 2003. Unless a new sale is arranged, the Pacific Northwest may have to replace as much as 600 average megawatts of energy, and 1,400 megawatts of capacity. The issues associatedwith any potential resale, however, will be complex. This paper presents estimates of the value of the Canadian share of energy from the perspective of the Pacific Northwest, and discusses policy issues that eventually will have to be addressed by both countries.” (Taken from abstract)

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Author: Lesser, Jonathan A.
Publisher: University of New Mexico School of Law
Date: 1990

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