Can we afford MEA’s new power plant?

To the editor:

Roughly $80 million over budget — that is the new price of Matanuska Electric Association’s Eklutna generating plant, according to very reliable sources. Can we afford that in our electric bills? How did it get this way? Who is responsible? Why is this information being held secret?

Aaron Downing

Palmer

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