ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the organized political movement which formed in opposition to Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) activities. It reviews of the past public initiative campaigns and identifies key actors in these past campaigns and the subsequent ratepayers’ movement. The review integrates the public opposition with WPPSS’ own deteriorating situation to describe the role of the I-394 campaign in shaping the public mood in the days prior to termination. Chronologically, I-394 was the last in a series of public initiative campaigns in Washington aimed at WPPSS’ nuclear construction program. The alliance was then joined by the anti-nuclear forces in the Grays Harbor area, which had organized around local opposition to the WPPSS plants at Satsop. Hopes for passage of the WPPSS Ceiling Bill had dimmed considerably by then, for supporters were assured of only two votes in the House Energy and Utilities Committee and only three in the Senate’s.
