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It will take decades before the spill is cleaned up. As for the cost, the air force has already spent 50 million, and believes that figure will double at least. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by at bae systems, our pride and dedication show in everything we do; from Electronics Systems to intelligence analysis and cyber operations; from combat vehicles and weapons to the maintenance and moderni...

And poet laureate Natasha Trethewey continue their exploration of where poetry lives. Tonight, a project breaking poets out of their ivory towers, and bringing them into their communities. Its really important that poets be in the community, be with whats happening and conscious and connected to whats going on in the world around us. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by at bae systems, our pride a...

Thats not just Data Collection; thats digital surveillance. I argued it was unethical, illegal and unconstitutional, and when this comes out, all hell is gonna break loose. Narrator next on frontline, United States of secrets. Part one the program. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant an...

Ifill plus, Jeffrey Brown and poet laureate Natasha Trethewey continue their exploration of where poetry lives. Tonight, a project breaking poets out of their ivory towers, and bringing them into their communities. Its really important that poets be in the community, be with whats happening and conscious and connected to whats going on in the world around us. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by a...

Narrator with the story of the man who exposed it all. Snowden said he was risking his freedom and possibly his life. This was a stupendous intelligence breach. Narrator and the convergence of government surveillance and an information revolution. The googles, the facebooks collect as much of our Sensitive Data as possible. But anything you hand to a private company is potentially the governments. Narrator tonight on frontline. Corporate america and the National Security state know so much about...

Thats not just Data Collection; thats digital surveillance. I argued it was unethical, illegal and unconstitutional, and when this comes out, all hell is gonna break loose. Narrator next on frontline, United States of secrets. Part one the program. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant an...

System purchases that we might need to make. We purchased biomass and wind from various facilities in california and in the west. And at the time of this reporting we totaled between 2011 and 2012 a balance of Renewable Energy credits of 53,544 megawatt hours. We utilized for our own rps compliance 80,185 and that is drawn from that mix of Renewable Energy credits that we generated and owned and those that we purchased. This is certainly not asking you to speculate on this hypothesis. Yes. So do...

Be more on the water side than the energy side. I mean water and electricity are very different things, but as resource, there is probably many more people in the bay area who get benefit from the water then get benefit from electricity. So you could look at it that way. Sure, you could. With the bulk of the percentage or proportion on water versus energy. And just so im being clear in describing to you the method that we are using, while each asset is categorized as either a water, a power or a...

Its one system, many times one in the same asset is serving two purposes. Other times, assets are strictly dedicated to providing Water Service and districtly dedicated to providing Power Service, but those providing both components we split those costs between water and power ratepayers. 55 to power and 45 to water. That is an historic that is an historic method that has been applied to the hetch hetchy system for all upcountry facilities. We arrived at that method its referred to as the separa...

Cost to provide the Water Service separate from the Power Service or the Power Service separate from the Water Service and see how the costs would have broken out . When we performed that analysis some years ago, utilizing consultants, we arrived at a figure a split, went into negotiations with our wholesale water customers, who also had views on how these asset costs should be shared and arrived at the 55 45 split. This is a method the separable cost method is used by the federal Energy Regulat...