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According to this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article, Alcoa is trying to restart its Wenatchee aluminum smelter, which was idled during the electricity crunch of 2001. During that summer, when electricity prices up and down the west coast shot up to absurd heights, most of the aluminum smelters in the Northwest shut down: they could make more […]http://www.sightline.org/wp-content/images/legacy/energy-sm.jpg