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...keep up with the needs of California's 46 northern counties, where he sells power to half of the 5,500,000 people. He has also had to fight the threat of public power from the great Central Valley Project, which includes Shasta Dam. As part of his grand plan, Black has added ten new power plants, 200,000 miles of new transmission lines, 15,000 additional miles of distribution lines, and a 500-mile pipeline from Arizona that added 300 million cubic feet of natural gas daily to P. G. & E.'s supply of 400 million cubic...
While the public-power-minded Bureau of Reclamation had hoped that municipalities would set up their own systems and buy power from Shasta Dam, P. G. & E. is still Shasta's biggest customer. The company has kept its rates so low that few communities have shown any inclination to go into the electric business...
Almost all privately-owned utilities of the Northwest opposed constructing the Bonneville Dam and Grand Coulee projects, contending they would be enormous "white elephants." But the Army engineers built the dam anyway. Industries took root in the Columbia Basin that could not have existed without the new power. Aluminum companies constructed plants in Washington, each ton of their metal requiring electricity enough to burn a sixty-watt light bulb for thirty-eight years. A tremendous lumber industry developed which also gulped large quantities of power...
...island valley are 106,000 peasants, many of whom must still be convinced that President Magloire's favorite project is bon. Within 40 months, Haiti will have one of the world's highest buttress dams wedged in Peligre Canyon, 225 ft. high and 1,075 ft. wide, backing up some 328 million cubic meters of water. This water will flow 60 miles to the smaller intake dam at Canneau, where it will be diverted into canals to irrigate 80,000 acres of their land. Yet many black farmers cannot understand the need for the project. Used to primitive...
...stripped him of dollars and pounds sterling. Naguib's men laid it on the line: they wanted Bonn to advance $600 million in long-term credits repayable in Egyptian cotton. This would be spent to 1) build a new, $300,000,000 hydroelectric irrigation dam that would nearly double Egypt's cultivatable area and multiply its electrical output; 2) construct a 275,000-ton merchant marine; 3) modernize transport and communications; 4) improve ports. They wanted German equipment and technicians...