PacifiCorp warns of bankruptcy risk

Warren Buffett’s giant electric utility is struggling to pay for 2020 wildfire damage.

 

By Jeff Manning

Oregon Journalism Project

They are words seldom seen in the same paragraph or uttered in the same sentence: Warren Buffett and bankruptcy.

Powerlines and cows near Gates
— Photo courtesy of Brian Burks

But the self-made multibillionaire Buffett has a big problem with his company’s Portland-based electric utility PacifiCorp.

In a Nov. 3 quarterly earnings statement, the company…

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