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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Julia Lyon / The Bulletin
February 4, 2002
When the news broke in December 1998 that Cogentrix Energy Inc. wanted to build an 810-megawatt, natural gas-fired power plant in Jenks, Okla., residents swamped Joe Johnson's answering machine with messages.
Just outside of Tulsa, the town of about 10,000 prided itself on its hundreds of....