A plan to cut down hundreds of trees in Forest Park to expand electrical transmission lines drew strong opposition Wednesday ...
Portland’s Forest Park is one of the city’s most treasured natural features, and among the largest urban forests in the ...
The utility previously stated that it hired a board-certified master arborist to identify the maximum amounts of trees that ...
The new transmission line, which PGE says is necessary to prevent service disruptions, would require removing almost 400 ...
"The risk of outages in Portland is real and must be taken seriously," PGE says as it pushes for Harborton Reliability ...
PGE’s plans include shifting the location of one power pole and rewiring a segment of existing transmission line to it, and ...
On the northern tip of the 5,200 acre Forest Park, PGE is proposing a project to improve its power grid. It would cover ...
PGE is looking to expand its power line system in Portland's Forest Park along Highway 30, but the city opposed the ...
The report showed at least two other alternatives PGE could pursue that would avoid cutting hundreds of trees in Forest Park. Staff also worried about future phases of PGE’s project, which could ...
The Urban Forestry Commission has expressed disapproval with an electric utility’s proposal to remove a portion of mature trees in a beloved city park, to make way for new and upgraded transmission ...
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portland General Electric is planning to extend high transmission power lines through Forest Park, but people who live nearby and the city’s Urban Forestry Commission say ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Many Portlanders testified in a public hearing on whether a utility company should be permitted to remove a portion of trees from one of the nation’s largest urban forests.