A Better Way for BPA is a WA State Non-Profit Corporation. We are an organized group of rural landowners encompassing Clark and Cowlitz counties. We chose to live away from infrastructure. We like electricity. We are not against Bonneville Power Administration. However, we are against BPA creating a new transmission corridor for their I-5 Corridor Reinforcement Project. We say BPA should run their 500 kV transmission lines on their own land along routes 9 and 25 where they planned for expansion 70 years ago.

~We agree that~

• Any route that is not built on the government owned infrastructure that is already in place is government waste

• Any route that is not built on the government owned existing transmission corridor is anti-property rights

• Asking citizens to shoulder the burden and pay any more in rates for this project than it would otherwise cost if built on existing government land is irresponsible, and would amount to a completely un-warranted rate increase.

• Building an additional new 70-mile transmission corridor would be a threat to private wells, while unnecessarily increasing the contamination to groundwater, rivers, streams, and wetlands from the herbicides BPA uses containing scientifically proven cancer-causing compounds.