Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blueprint, perfected by the Southwest experience, is now being adapted to the Northern Plains. One of the first of many projects is an 800 kilovolt (kv) transmission line from Underwood, North Dakota, to Delano, Minnesota, linking into the Midcontinental Area Power Pool, a grid system of public and privately-owned utilities and members of the National Electrical Reliability Council. From Underwood the line is direct current; at Delano it is converted into three separate 345 kv alternating current lines and fed into the power grid...
...centralized energy grid is a plague to dairy farmers of west central Minnesota. As George Crocker of the General Assembly to Stop the Power Line (GASP) puts it, "Starting almost a decade ago, the industry started to get ideas about the western coal front. As soon as the plans materialized, the people started fighting a struggle, which has taken many forms for almost eight years...
...owned by oil companies) mining company in the United States, a leader in eastern underground coal mines," Crocker continues." So the company began looking for a way to get into western coal land, talking to the United Power Association and the Cooperative Power Association, two small utilities based in Minnesota. An agreement was made--the North American Coal Company would produce the coal and the utilities would transport and distribute the electricity...
...maintain the momentum of unionism as more workers turned white collar. Union membership has shrunk from 34% of the work force when he became president to 23% today. Without Meany's capacity for reaching consensus, the fractious unions may have trouble working together. Says Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "His departure is as important as his presence. It's like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization, not as an individual." Kirkland...
...Angels, on the other hand, outfought the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals to win the Western Division in a race that lasted until the final week of the season...