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Well look what I found: Andy Kerr's Company, "The Larch Company LLC" is partners with Pacificorp through the BlueSky project...

You all remember Andy Kerr:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b61dbb04601.htm

Wow, it appears he's ready to make money off the Klamath Valley again - but this time he's bringing in his partner, Pacificorp...

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http://www.andykerr.net/Larch/LarchPT.htm

What It Is

The Larch Company is a for-profit, non-membership conservation organization that represents species who cannot talk and the human generations to come. Legally, it is a limited liability company under Oregon law, which gives an entity the protections that corporations get without having to hold that damn annual meeting and do as much paperwork. I wholly own the Larch Company. My official title is "Czar."

What It Does

The Larch Company carries out conservation projects (see Current Projects and Future Projects).

These projects are either:

* paid for by clients;
* done on speculation (someday maybe I'll get paid to do more of what I've been doing); or,
* pro bono ("for the public good").

Of course, in my opinion, all are for the public good. Some goods just pay better than others or in different ways than financial remuneration.

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OF COURSE, ANDY KERR'S THE LARCH COMPANY IS A PARTNER WITH PACIFICORP

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http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:BwFfpqEJDM4J:www.pacificpower.net/File/File55689.pdf+%22pacificorp%22+%22larch+company%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a

FALL 2005
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VOLUME 5
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ISSUE 3

As the number of customers
buying renewable energy
through Blue Sky grows,
we’re making purchases for
the program from more
facilities in Oregon and
around the region. We’ve
recently added renewable
energy from small suppliers
throughout the state:
The Larch Company Solar
Project – Located in
Ashland, Ore., Larch
Company’s photovoltaic
system is having the
environmental benefit of
planting 830 trees each year.

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Blue Sky is Pacificorp's "green energy program"...

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http://www.wutc.wa.gov/webdocs.nsf/56866f91116f6154882563da00740317/f1caad7fe4309b7f88256a1d00773053!OpenDocument

PacifiCorp offers green power under the Blue Sky Program (Schedule 70, New Wind, Geothermal and Solar Power Rider- Optional)

Pacificorp Offers A New Bulk Green Power Option under Docket No. UE-042068

PacifiCorp offers green power under the Blue Sky Program (Schedule 70, New Wind, Geothermal and Solar Power Rider - Optional)

PacifiCorp’s Blue Sky program allows customers that receive service under the Company's Schedules 16, 18, 24, 36, 40, and 48T to purchase blocks of 100 kWh of new wind power. Customers that subscribe have to pay a charge of $1.95 per block per month to cover the incremental cost of green power plus marketing and administrative costs. Subscription to the program is voluntary and customers may purchase any number of blocks regardless of their energy usage.

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ANDY KERR and his business partner PACIFICORP stand to profit from the deal - and when Andy Kerr stands to profit, you can bet it will be at the Klamath Valley farmer's expense...

OMG - Download this!! Andy Kerr's LARCH COMPANY representative James McCarthy testifying on behalf of Pacificorp to specifically raise utility rates for KLAMATH VALLEY IRRIGATORS!!!
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http://apps.puc.state.or.us/edockets/edocs.asp?FileType=HTB&FileName=ue170htb143017.pdf

BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION
OF OREGON
In the Matter of the Request of )
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PACIFIC POWER & LIGHT )
UE-170
(dba PACIFICORP )
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For a General Rate Increase in the )
Company’s Oregon Annual Revenues )
(Klamath Rate Case Portion of this Proceeding )

Direct Testimony of
James V. McCarthy
On Behalf of
Oregon Natural Resources Council, Pacific Coast Federation of
Fishermen’s Associations, and WaterWatch of Oregon

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ONRC et al./100
McCarthy/2
Exhibit 101
1 Q: PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND BUSINESS ADDRESS.
2 A: My name is James V. McCarthy; my business address is Oregon Natural
3 Resources Council, P.O. Box 151, Ashland, Oregon, 97520.
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Q: WHAT IS YOUR OCCUPATION AND BY WHOM ARE YOU
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6 EMPLOYED?
7 A: I have been employed as a salaried employee by Oregon Natural Resources
8 Council (ONRC) as a Policy Analyst since 2002. In addition, over the same
9 period I have worked as a self-employed public policy and communications
10 consultant, employed by a variety of conservation organization clients such as
11 Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, the Klamath Basin Coalition, and The Larch
12 Company.
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Q: WHAT SUBJECTS DO YOU INTEND TO ADDRESS IN THIS
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TESTIMONY?
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A: I have been asked to review PacifiCorp’s proposal to move Klamath Basin
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irrigators from their present highly subsidized electrical power rates under their
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current special contracts – rates which have only decreased since 1917 – to the
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standard Agricultural Pumping Service Tariff, Schedule 41 (the “standard tariff”),
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which is the rate paid by every other similar Oregon agricultural operation
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obtaining its power from PacifiCorp.
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In particular I have been asked to describe the differences between what
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Klamath irrigators pay under their current special contract rates with what every
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other non-Klamath Oregon irrigator typically pays under PacifiCorp’s Schedule
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41. This is relevant to whether the current, highly-subsidized and below cost
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power rates currently enjoyed by the Klamath Basin irrigators are “just and

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reasonable,” and if not, then what a “just and reasonable” power rate would be.
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