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Sam Opposition(Continued Prom Page One) ! sites on the Flathead,” MetoaH *a.I«n ln ^'S statement.Rather, Ihe company has used the proposals as a device to halt construction of the proposed multi-purpose Knowles or Paradise. dams, he declared,MetoaU repeated a contentionchat Montana Power for 43 years has failed lo follow through on its staled goat of construction of run-ol-the-river dams at the Buffalo Rapids sites, lie said a Montana Power subsidiary first made application for a site on the river in 1028.The utility has denied this allegation. II filed the current application fur a hydroelectric project in March J961 and said its application in the 1920s led to construction of its Kerr Dam which is 11 miles upstream from one of the Buffalo Rapids sites, miles upstream from-the other.Each would employ about 300 men during a three-year* con-struclion phase.If the power company would offer to buiid a project comparable to Knowles, Metcalf said he would support it.“But, he declared, the company has always submitted an insufficient, inadequate, wasteful program of partial development.”Metcalf said 0. G. Slethaus of the Swan River Farmers Union would protest fh* power firm plan because “We need big dams that will stabilize water flow and firm up power on ihe Columbia River.Metcalf quoted Leopard Ken-field, Montana Farmers Union president, as saying the private power plan “would spoil themultipurpose potential erf thatstretch of an important river . . with no flood can trot, no provision for irrigation and scant recreation.Metcalf and Sen. Mike Mansfield and Rep. Arnold Olsen, Montana Democrats, have sponsored Knowles dam legislationfor years, but it has never been approved by Congress.The Montana Power Co. and Flathead Reservation Indians nave fought the Knowles Dam proposal. The Indians also have potential dam sites which would be flooded by the federal reservoir.Monday is the deadline Inr fil-mg petitions and statements in connection with the power firms license application, which has been before the ppc for several years. No hearing data has been set.
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Montana Standard Post
Butte, Montana, US
Mon, Dec 28, 1964
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