DrumBeat: November 18, 2008
Credit crisis dims the lights for power industry GREAT FALLS, Montana: As workers scramble to build an $800 million coal-fired power plant on a patch of farmland here, a crisis that began on faraway Wall Street threatens to stretch America's power supplies to the brink — driving up prices and laying the stage for future shortages. The power industry is under extraordinary financial pressure just five years after North America suffered its worst blackout ever, when rolling outages turned out
