Energy

Non-disclosure Pacts Keep California Taxpayers in Dark about Power Deals

May 31, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">San Jose Mercury News</p> <p>As state officials cut deals in recent months to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase electricity, they signed agreements not to reveal the terms of those contracts to the public.</p>

Should Americans Be Suffering From High Gas Prices While Oil Companies Thrive?

May 31, 2001  ·  Jamie Court

<p class="source">Fox News Network - THE O'REILLY FACTOR</p> <p>In the "Impact" segment tonight, ExxonMobil profits are in for the first quarter, up 45 percent from last year to a record $5-plus billion for one quarter. Meantime, high gas prices are hurting all working Americans. So what's going on?</p>

Plan would have biggest customers pay Edison’s debt

May 31, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>Legislative leaders are drafting a new rescue plan for Southern California Edison that would put the utility back on its feet financially at the expense of its biggest customers.</p>

Top Consumer Advocate: SoCal Ed Bailout May Be Illegal

May 30, 2001  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<p class="source">Dow Jones Newswires</p> <p>A bailout of Edison International utility Southern California Edison is unaffordable, unfair, unnecessary and probably unlawful, leading consumer advocate Harvey Rosenfield wrote state legislators Tuesday.</p>

Contract Killings

May 30, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>How the state's contracts with crucial electric power providers actually encourage them to gouge us</h3><p class="source">SF Weekly</p> <p>As California's energy crisis heads into what promises to be a brutal summer, the degree of dysfunction within the state's electricity market is already painfully apparent.</p>

Bailout Watch #47 – May 29, 2001

May 29, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<strong>BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians<br/> <br/> Bailout Watch #47 - May 29, 2001<br/> <br/> THEM. </strong>"They..." Cheney keeps saying. "They had a problem... They've bankrupted the...

California’s power crisis generating lots of heat

May 29, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The Orange County Register</p> <p>Detectives would seem to be tripping over each other to discover who did what to whom, and why, in California's energy crisis.</p>

Bailout Watch #46 – May 24, 2001

May 24, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<strong>BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians<br/> <br/> Bailout Watch #46 - May 24, 2001<br/> <br/> Calling Jerry Maguire. </strong>Yesterday evening State Controller Kathleen Connell announced that...

Valley heat doesn’t drain state power

May 24, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The Fresno Bee</p> <p>What happened to the rolling blackouts? With temperatures hitting 100 degrees and higher the last three days, Central California braced for the sweaty reality of the state's electricity crisis.</p>

Davis to order 1-hour notice of blackouts

May 24, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Plan also in works to give law enforcement even earlier alerts</h3><p class="source">The San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>Gov. Gray Davis will issue an executive order today requiring that Californians be given at least one hour's notice before blackouts hit, according to a top administration official.</p>

Pronostican que Bush hará bajar los precios de energía

May 23, 2001  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<h3>Activistas aseguran que la crisis podría crear recesión en el país en el verano</h3><p class="source">La Opinion</p> <p>En el verano, el presidente George W. Bush deberá hacer bajar los precios de la electricidad para evitar que la crisis económica de California se convierta en depresión en todo Estados Unidos, pronosticó ayer Harvey Rosenfield, presidente de la Coalición</p>

Bailout Watch #44 – May 22, 2001

May 22, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<strong>BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians<br/> <br/> Bailout Watch #44 - May 22, 2001<br/> <br/> Hey, Gray, Don't Give the Grid Away.</strong> While the Gov. rails against the Bush-Cheney...</strong>