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Oral history interview with Al Wright [Session 04, Recording 01]
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- 2002-08-20 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:31:20
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Albert E. Wright was born in Healdsburg, California, in 1942, and he grew up in Cloverdale, California. In 1965, he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked as an engineer for Los Angeles Water and Power. He then relocated to Oregon and worked for the Oregon Water Resources Board during the administration of Governor Tom McCall. After McCall left office, Wright worked several other jobs in water resource management in Oregon and Washington. In 1981, he joined the Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee, and became its executive director in 1985. He retired in the mid-1990s, and began a consulting business in Portland.
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Tape 6, Side 1. In the fourth interview session, conducted on August 20, 2002, Wright continues to discuss the interests of electrical utilities in Montana and working with some of the members of the NWPPC. He also talks about the interests of electric utilities in Idaho. He describes the impact the addition of some salmon species to the endangered species list in 1989 had on the council.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- English
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- Electric utilities--Deregulation--United States
- Electric utilities--Northwest, Pacific
- Energy policy--Northwest, Pacific
- Fishes--Conservation--Northwest, Pacific
- Salmon fisheries--Northwest, Pacific
- Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee
- Northwest Power Planning Council (U.S.)
- United States. Bonneville Power Administration
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- O'Rourke, Michael (Filmmaker) (Contributor)