However, the license has been contested by the Warm Springs Tribes,
which is expected to also file with FERC in December.
PGE purchased the land with money from a $10 million fund promised by
PGE and Enron when they merged in 1997.
“We were looking for merger support and worked with some environmental
groups to determine what we should do to improve the rivers where we
have hydro projects,” Esler said. “We agreed that it wouldn’t be for
science, nor for hydro relicensing.”
The fund …
