Energy

PG&E sails into bonus storm

May 31, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Financial Times</p> <p>PG&E, the Californian utility driven to bankruptcy proceedings by the state's power crisis, drew a storm of criticism yesterday over a request to be allowed to pay top managers Dollars 17.5m in bonuses.</p>

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>

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>

PG&E Judge Bars Panel of Customers

May 19, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s 4 million customers are not entitled to a committee to represent interests in bankruptcy case.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>In a decision that outraged consumer groups, a judge ruled Friday that Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s 4 million customers are not legally entitled to a separate ratepayers committee that would represent their interests in the utility's bankruptcy case.</p>