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Northwest may blaze U.S. path to green grid

December 15, 2008 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

During the height of the Great Depression in 1933, one of the largest public-works projects of the New Deal began to take shape on the banks of the Columbia River in Eastern Washington.

Seven thousand workers employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built Grand Coulee Dam — a mile wide and twice as tall as Niagara Falls — along with Bonneville Dam in the Columbia Gorge and a transmission grid that electrified the Northwest.

By Les Blumenthal

McClatchy Newspapers

Full Story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008518325_works15.html

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