California must Launch Hostile Takeover of PG&E
PG&E is an academy for accidental arsonists. It’s gotta go. What we need to do in California is launch a hostile takeover
Electricity
Expert: PG&E Blackouts ‘All about Threatening Bankruptcy Judge’
California utility company Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) is blackmailing the judge overseeing their bankruptcy case
PG&E is a Crime Wave, Not a Power CompanyBlackout is Blackmail
Leaving hospitals, schools and 1 million homes without power — and that means without water — in California is the
Fukushima: They Knew
“Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake”. The Fukushima story you didn’t hear on CNN
Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants
I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator
Ken Lay's Alive!
Don't check the casket. I know he's back. When I saw those lights flickering out at La Guardia Airport yesterday and heard the eerie shrieks and moans in the dark, broiling subway tunnels, I just knew it: Ken Lay's alive! We can see his spirit in every flickering lightbulb from Kansas to Queens as we head into America's annual Blackout season.
When Ahnold Got Lay'd
Excerpted from Armed Madhouse
May 17, 2001. In a room at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverley Hills, the Financial Criminal of the twentieth century, not long out of prison, met with the Financial Criminal of the twenty-first century who feared he may also have to do hard time. These two, bondmarket manipulators Mike Milken and Ken Lay, no-yet-indicted Chairman of Enron Corporation, were joined by a select group of movers and shakers – and one movie star.
The Al Capone of Electricity
Ken Lay Will Get Away with his Real Crimes
Ken Lay Will Get Away with his Real CrimesSeattle Post-Intelligencer
Al Capone cut throats, machine-gunned people to build his gang and went to jail””for not filing his taxes properly. Likewise, Ken Lay, buccaneer of the power industry, will go down””if the jury doesn't buy his alibi””for not filing his SEC forms properly.
Are Scots on the Oregon Trail a lot Smarter than they seem?
While we were in jail in Washington during the war in Vietnam, my comrades and I spent part of our night as guests of the state singing several choruses of the song, ‘Waist Deep in the Big Muddy'.
I would not compare Scottish Power chairman Ian Robinson to President Lyndon Johnson. And Robinson's invasion of the US power industry through his plan to purchase PacifiCorp of Oregon is not exactly the landing at Da Nang. But there is a little bit of LBJ's resolute optimism, while marching deeper into the quicksand, which has me humming that old song.
Scottish Power's US Bid 'is Dead'
Talks on Friday failed to boost Scottish Power's $4.7 billion bid for the US electricity company PacifiCorp. Earlier in the week it was dealt a possibly fatal blow when analysts at the Oregon state utility commission urged regulators to reject it.
Stiff US Opposition to Scottish Power
For The Observer/Guardian UK
In an attempt to salvage its troubled takeover of US electricity company Pacificorp, Scottish Power on Friday presented a detailed list of the benefits to customers.
Don't Hold Your Breath for Rebatefrom The New York Times
GOV. George E. Pataki says he is mailing out checks of $100 to $232 to every home on Long Island, a bonus as part of Mr. Pataki's plan to cut electric rates 23 percent.
If it were true, I would leave out a glass of milk and cookies for Governor Santa when he comes down my chimney. But alas, the rebate, like the rate reduction, is as real as reindeer on the roof.
