The State - News from June 22, 1988

Hanford-area residents oppose a controversial coal-fired co-generation plant to be built in the Central California city by a 32-1 margin, according to an unofficial poll. A readers’ poll by the Hanford Sentinel showed that 1,156 residents oppose the plant and only 36 support it. Respondents identifying themselves as Hanford residents voted 892 to 30 against the plant; those living outside the area voted 265 to 6 against it. “It was by far the highest level of response, and showed the most lopsided final result, of any survey ever conducted by the newspaper,� wrote Sentinel Managing Editor Paul C. Merz. The City Council supported the burner by a 3-2 vote last March.