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BAILOUT OR BUYOUT?
STATE TO PAY EDISON $2.76 BILLION FOR POWER LINESThe Daily News of Los Angeles Under a deal to keep cash-strapped Southern California…
Apr 10, 2001Consumer Watchdog
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Bailout Watch #30 – Apr 09, 2001
BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #30 - Apr 09, 2001 As Ye Sow,…
Apr 10, 2001
Energy
Utility’s bankruptcy filing adds to California’s confusion
USA TODAY California's largest utility threw more heat than light on the state's energy muddle by filing for bankruptcy, power players in…
Apr 9, 2001
Energy
Utility’s bankruptcy filing adds to California’s confusion
USA TODAY California's largest utility threw more heat than light on the state's energy muddle by filing for bankruptcy, power players in…
Apr 9, 2001
Energy
Power Grab — Some Democrats Favor Seizing Plants
The San Francisco Chronicle With the prospect that state power buyers could burn through more than $2 billion a month this summer,…
Apr 9, 2001
Insurance
Law ensures that officials will represent public
Inland Valley Times Claremont voters recently enacted Measure A, a law forbidding any city official from receiving rewards, gifts over $50, campaign…
Apr 9, 2001
Energy
Davis agrees to buy transmission lines from Edison
Sacramento Bee Just three days after Pacific Gas and Electric Co. filed for bankruptcy protection and cut off negotiations with the state,…
Apr 9, 2001
Energy
California’s biggest utility files for bankruptcy
The 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, 2001
Energy
Calif. Gov. Achieves Power Deal
Associated Press In a bid to pull the state's second biggest utility back from the brink of bankruptcy, Gov. Gray Davis announced…
Apr 9, 2001PG&E Killed PG&E
Apr 9, 2001Desperate Davis Proposes Massive Bailout of Edison, Ratepayers Will Pay Billions
Plan DOA in Legislature
Apr 9, 2001
Energy
Ratepayers lose clout PG&E filing cuts consumers’ ability to exert pressure on a rescue plan.
Sacramento Bee Short of electricity and even shorter of patience, consumers suddenly have lost some influence in California's energy crisis: their ability…
Apr 8, 2001
Energy
PG&E GAVE BONUSES PRIOR TO BANKRUPTCY
BEFORE 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, 2001
Energy
PG&E Bombshell Leaves Customers Grumpy, Cynical
Rates expected to soar, blackouts to proliferateThe San Francisco Chronicle Your lights are still on.
Apr 7, 2001
Energy
Crisis out of politicians’ hands But some think PG&E move could bring order to a chaotic process.
Sacramento Bee With the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s fate in the hands of a federal bankruptcy judge, state officials acknowledged Friday…
Apr 7, 2001
Energy
California’s largest utility files for bankruptcy
San Jose Mercury News Pacific Gas & Electric Co. filed for bankruptcy Friday, rejecting the governor's desperate attempts to stabilize California's power…
Apr 7, 2001
Energy
California’s largest utility files for bankruptcy
Contra 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, 2001
Energy
California utility files for bankruptcy
Agence France Presse Frustrated with stalled negotiations with California state officials to stop financial hemorrhaging, Pacific Gas and Electric Company filed Friday…
Apr 7, 2001