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Sacramento Bee Just three days after Pacific Gas and Electric Co. filed for bankruptcy protection and cut off negotiations with the state,…
Apr 9, 2001The Associated Press California's biggest utility filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, seeking relief from the state's energy deregulation debacle. The surprise move…
Apr 9, 2001Associated Press In a bid to pull the state's second biggest utility back from the brink of bankruptcy, Gov. Gray Davis announced…
Apr 9, 2001Plan DOA in Legislature
Apr 9, 2001Sacramento Bee Short of electricity and even shorter of patience, consumers suddenly have lost some influence in California's energy crisis: their ability…
Apr 8, 2001BEFORE ITS FILING, THE UTILITY ALSO HAD $2.5 BILLION ON HAND AND HAD RESTARTED SERVICES SUSPENDED EARLIER BECAUSE OF SHAKY FINANCES.Los Angeles…
Apr 8, 2001The Associated Press Here's what lawmakers, residents and others said Friday about Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy filing:
Apr 7, 2001San Diego Union Tribune Back in 1997, as California's experiment with electricity deregulation was about to get under way, the state's entire…
Apr 7, 2001The Boston Herald Yesterday's bankruptcy filing by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. should have little or no impact on Massachusetts plants owned…
Apr 7, 2001Associated Press Gov. Gray Davis lashed out Pacific Gas and Electric's decision to file for bankruptcy, calling it selfish and "a slap…
Apr 7, 2001CHAPTER 11 FILING, THIRD-LARGEST IN HISTORY, PUTS THE UTILITY'S FATE IN A JUDGE'S HANDS. COMPANY SAYS RESCUE TALKS WERE 'GOING NOWHERE'Los Angeles…
Apr 7, 2001Rates expected to soar, blackouts to proliferateThe San Francisco Chronicle Your lights are still on.
Apr 7, 2001Rates expected to soar, blackouts to proliferateThe San Francisco Chronicle Your lights are still on.
Apr 7, 2001Sacramento Bee With the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s fate in the hands of a federal bankruptcy judge, state officials acknowledged Friday…
Apr 7, 2001San Jose Mercury News Pacific Gas & Electric Co. filed for bankruptcy Friday, rejecting the governor's desperate attempts to stabilize California's power…
Apr 7, 2001Contra Costa Times California's 11-month-old electricity crisis took a dramatic turn Friday when the venerable Pacific Gas & Electric Co. unexpectedly filed…
Apr 7, 2001Agence France Presse Frustrated with stalled negotiations with California state officials to stop financial hemorrhaging, Pacific Gas and Electric Company filed Friday…
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