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...project in the history of his state, a 251-mile-long line linking Casper with Billings, Mont. At Billings the $7,200,000 line of the Pacific Power & Light Co. hooks into the big Pacific Northwest power pool. Next year the line will be extended from Casper to nearby Glenrock, Wyo., to link up a $23 million steam electric plant which Pacific Power is rushing to completion. With the new plant operating, Wyoming's electric generating capacity will increase 50%, transforming the state from a power-deficit area, shunned by industry, to a highly attractive power-surplus area...
Another result was the rise of citizens' groups to seek industry. One of the most dramatic successes was in tiny Glenrock (pop. 1,500). With its chief industry, an outdated oil refinery employing about 60 persons, scheduled to close, Glenrock merchants set up a committee to get new industries that could use the area's big coal deposits...
When a group of townspeople asked Pacific Power & Light, which had recently bought out local Wyoming electric utility interests, to build a coal-fired steam electric plant at Glenrock, the company had no more idea of complying, said one company official, "than we had of flying to the moon." But, for the sake of public relations, the company agreed to send geologists. Their reports were eye-popping. Within 15 miles of an ideal plant site were 50 million tons of coal in fat seams, close enough to the surface to be mined by power shovels. Last year Pacific Power broke...
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