To the editor:

I read the letter to the editor by former Senator Phil Rockefeller. While I respect the senator’s past service to our community, many of his statements in the letter are just not true.

If the community sets up an electric utility and buys power from Bonneville we will still get power from the SAME sources as we do now. It will be a mix of hydro, coal, nuclear and some wind/solar. There is no magic filter that can be put on the transmission lines to accept only the hydro electrons and leave the coal-generated electrons to everyone else. We are now and will remain part of the power grid.

The suggestion of the Island Power promoters to the contrary is a falsehood.

Note that the primary Island Power promoter, Steve Johnson, successfully lobbied for a comparable proposal in Jefferson County, which utility, as it turns out, is now in deep financial trouble, with actual utility costs running much more than double what was projected.

We cannot just choose which electrons we get and reject the ones we do not want. If we buy power from Bonneville it may impact the cost but it will still give us power from the same sources we use now.

Do not be fooled by misstatements or falsehoods. The senator needs to check his facts.

NORM DAVIS

Bainbridge Island