Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
Mary Jensen Named General Counsel at Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville Power Administration)
(PORTLAND, OR) -- Mary Jensen, who has worked in the
Bonneville Power Administration General Counsel’s office since 2002, has been
named its general counsel. She takes over after managing the office for a year
as acting general counsel.
“Mary stepped in and helped BPA work through a number of
complex legal matters while acting as general counsel for the past year,” said
BPA Administrator Elliot Mainzer. “She is first the BPA general counsel who
reports directly to the administrator. I look forward to continuing to work
with her to further enhance BPA’s legal risk management and compliance.”
While serving as acting general counsel, Jensen guided BPA’s
Office of General Counsel through a major reorganization, instituted a new
office policy on legal advice, and collaborated with the Department of Energy
general counsel in creating national guidelines for power marketing
administrations in states where marijuana sales are lawful under state
statutes. She also instituted new processes that enable faster response times
to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act.
“The Bonneville Power Administration serves an incredibly
important purpose in the Northwest,” Jensen said. “I am honored to serve as its
general counsel and lead the legal staff that supports our efforts to keep our
assets delivering value to the region.”
Jensen has specialized in legal issues involving the
provision of transmission service at Bonneville and was promoted to manage that
legal section in 2008. Before joining BPA in 2002, she worked at the U.S.
Office of the Solicitor in Phoenix, Ariz., advising the Bureau of Indian
Affairs regarding operations of its federally-owned electric utilities that
provide service in Arizona.
Preceding her federal service, she worked as a prosecutor in
Tucson, Ariz., handling felony cases including vehicular offenses, elder abuse
and homicide. Jensen is a graduate of the University of Arizona College of Law.
Her son is a third-generation journeyman lineman, who lives in Missouri with
his wife and their five children.
The Office of General Counsel provides legal expertise that
supports BPA programs through legal advice and representation, including but
not limited to the general areas of transmission, natural resources, power,
lands, federal resources and treaties, generation and finance, personnel, and
ratemaking.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Monday, March 23, 2015
Oregon’s Swanson Group Purchases Olympic Panel Products (Joint News Release Swanson Group & Olympic Panel Products)
March 20, 2015
(Glendale, OR)
-- Swanson Group Manufacturing LLC,
a Pacific Northwest forest products company, announced today that it has acquired the assets of
Olympic Panel
Products LLC. Located in
Shelton, Washington,
Olympic Panel
is
the largest overlay plywood manufacturer in North America. Terms of the transaction
were not disclosed.
Swanson
Group
plans to relocate the Olympic Panel
assets in 2016 to its state-of-the-art
facility that will be constructed in Springfield,
Oregon. The new facility will continue
to produce Olympic-branded
products. During the next twelve
to eighteen months, Olympic
Panel
Products will
continue to operate
in Shelton to ensure a smooth transition for all customers and suppliers.
Swanson
executives believe
Springfield, Oregon is the right location to maintain the
Olympic Panel tradition
of
building the highest quality overlay products.
“Swanson
is
building a world-class plywood
and veneer manufacturing facility in a location with
an excellent workforce and log supply,” said Steve
Swanson, President and CEO of Swanson
Group. “We have long
been impressed
with the quality and
depth of Olympic’s overlay product line
and
believe that this acquisition fits perfectly with our goal to
become the leading producer of overlay panels in North
America.”
“With our lease expiring next year, we
needed to make a strategic, long-term decision
and concluded that this transaction is the right step at this time,” said
Kurt Liebich, CEO of New Wood Resources, which owns
Olympic Panel. “While Swanson’s new facility in Springfield
will
eventually be
the place where Olympic’s products are made, nothing
with respect to our operations will change until 2016.”
New Wood
Resources will
continue
to own
Omak Wood Products in Omak, Washington, which
produces softwood
veneer for Northwest
markets and Douglas fir
plywood for
specialty and commodity applications. New Wood Resources
is also rebuilding
the Winston Plywood &
Veneer Mill in
Louisville, Mississippi, which was destroyed by an F4 tornado in
2014.
About Swanson Group
Swanson
Group
is a family owned forest products company based in
Southern Oregon, that operates two sawmills, two
plywood &
veneer facilities, and a utility lift
helicopter services
division. Since 1951, the
Swanson family has manufactured dimension lumber, plywood, veneer and
studs.
The
company has a long
history of supporting
its home state’s natural
resources and
purchases its raw materials from environmentally
responsible sources.
For more information, visit www.swansongroup.biz.
About Olympic Panel Products
Part of New Wood Resources LLC, Olympic Panel Products is the largest
manufacturer
of
overlay plywood
in North America. With over 70 years of production and field
application know-how, the
company’s panels are known
in the industry as the finest overlay plywood panels in North America. Olympic Panel
Products has one of the
broadest product offerings
available and is the market share leader in
overlay plywood. For
more
information, visit www.olypanel.com.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
Friday, March 6, 2015
Daylight Saving Time starts Sunday morning (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)
This Sunday morning at 2 AM we begin
Daylight Saving Time. Captain Rick Mack with Riverside Fire Authority
says when you set the time on your clocks ahead one hour, it’s a good
time to replace the batteries in your home or business smoke detectors.
Mack says if you have a working smoke detector in your home, it cuts
your chance of dying in a fire in half. He also says it’s recommended by
industry officials that you should replace your smoke detectors if they
are more than 10 years old.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
EPA Rules Kick Up Wind Wars in the West (Politico)
www.politico.com
EPA's upcoming climate rule for existing power plants has created a big divide on who gets the credit for green electricity - the state that produces it or the state that uses it? The debate has major stakes for populous, electricity-hungry states like California, already a major buyer of renewable and fossil-fuel power produced elsewhere. But it's just as important for states like Wyoming, which is both the nation's largest coal producer and its 12th-largest generator of wind power.
EPA's upcoming climate rule for existing power plants has created a big divide on who gets the credit for green electricity - the state that produces it or the state that uses it? The debate has major stakes for populous, electricity-hungry states like California, already a major buyer of renewable and fossil-fuel power produced elsewhere. But it's just as important for states like Wyoming, which is both the nation's largest coal producer and its 12th-largest generator of wind power.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
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