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PULP News Articles July - December 2006

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NYSEG Bills: Utility Must Take Action

07-05-2006

Press & Sun Bulletin - Editorial

Government-run Utilities Can Be A Boon for Customers

07-16-2006

Annapolis Capital - Katie Arcieri

State Panel Set to Weigh Central Hudson Rate Hike

07-18-2006

Poughkeepsie Journal - Craig Wolf

Heat Blast Tests U.S. Power System Soaring Electricity Demand Puts Focus on Capacity Gap Amid Calls for New Plants

07-18-2006

Wall Street Journal - Rebecca Smith

Outage Outrage: Heat Wave Aside, What’s Got Queens Residents Steamed is Residual Lack of Power, No Word on End to Woes

07-20-2006

Newsday -  Cara Tabachnick, Jennifer Kellleher, Chuck Bennett and Lensay Abadula

Utility Profits are Limited

07-20-2006

Poughkeepsie Journal

Power Failures Disrupt Commute and Storm Downs Lines in Region

07-20-2006

NY Times - Anthony Ramirez

Power Outages in Queens, NY Pose Mystery for Con Edison

07-20-2006

Associated Press

Parts of Queens Are Blacked Out for a Fourth Consecutive Day

07-21-2006

NY Times - Corey Kilgannon

GIVE US POWER!

07-21-2006

NY Post - Stefanie Cohen, John Doyle and Cynthia R. Fagen

Lingering Queens Power Problems Has Residents Feeling Forgotten

07-21-2006

NY Sun - Matthew Chayes -

Electric Silence in the Age of Outage

07-23-2006

The Galveston Daily News - Michael A. Smith

Little Risk to Schwarzenegger of Blackouts, Thanks to Gray Davis

07-23-2006

Associated Press - Laura Kurtzman

Apple’s Power Struggle Is Here to Stay

07-23-2006

NY Post - Angela Montefinise

Consumers Hit by Spike in Electricity Fees

07-26-2006

Newsday - Tom Mcginty

Official Unsure of Monitoring on Con Ed

07-28-2006

NY Times - Sewell Chan

Physics Trump Economics

07-30-2006

NY Times - George C. Loehr

Power Probe Will See Light

08-01-2006

Sun Media

Shocker! Power Firms Gave 13M to N.Y. pols

08-01-2006

NY Daily News - David Saltonstall

Heat Wave Pushes Power Prices Above U.S. Caps

08-04-2006

Wall Street Journal - Rebecca Smith

Pols Turned off by PSC Utility Probe

08-11-2006

NY Daily News - Lisa L. Colangelo

New Yorkers Lacking Energy

08-13-2006

Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin

Polluting Power Plants: Amid Competing Strategies, the Problem Isn’t Going Away

08-16-2006

Post Standard - Editorial

Three Ex-Aguila Trading Managers Plead Guilty to Cover-up

08-21-2006

Kansas City Business Journal

‘Green’ Gov: Juice As I Say - Not As I Do

08-21-2006

NY Post - Bill Sanderson

Fire: No Power, Family Used Candles

09-01-2006

WHAM - Jane Flasch

Candle Used for Light in Absence of Electricity May Have Caused Chicago Fire that Killed 6

09-03-2006

MSNCB. com - Associated Press - Julio Cortez

Electricity Auction To Generate Odd Bids: Wall Street Financiers, Others Could

09-03-2006

Chicago Tribune - Robert Manor

In the Storm’s Wake, A Wave of Anger at Con Edison: Legions Complain about Slow Action by the Utility after a Strike by Ernesto

09-05-2006

Staten Island Advance - Sally Goldenberg & Maura Yates

Tens of Thousands Still Without Power In Westchester

09-05-2006

NY Times - Anthony Ramirez

Con Edison Playing Defense on Communications

09-06-2006

The Journal News - Allan Drury

Con Ed Failures Spur PSC Audit

09-08-2006

Daily News - Joe Mahoney

N.Y. Watchdog Sniffs Con Ed: Audit of Emergency Ops

09-08-2006

NY Post - Kenneth Lovett

Money for Nothing: the State Won’t Tell You Who Collected the Most Empire Zone Tax Breaks. The Secret: It’s a New Jersey Company that Runs Old, Dirty Power Plants That Didn’t Add Workers.

09-17-2006

Syracuse Post Standard - Mike McAndrew

Energy for Jobs: State Must Find Ways to Reduce Costs to Help Businesses Compete

09-21-2006

Democrat & Chronicle - Editorial

New York Powe Authority at a Juncture: State Commission’s Findings Could Bring Big Changes in Agency’s Operations

09-24-2006

Times Union - James M. Odato

Con Edison Takes Heat for Response to Outages

09-26-2006

The Journal News - Allan Drury

Fight over power allocation comes to town: Who gets cheap electricity? Homes or Industry? Western New York? North Country?

09-26-2006

Post Standard - Tim Knauss

The Broken Promis of Electricity Deregulation

09-27-2006

Congressional Quarterly - Steven T. Dennis

RG&E Begins New Cutoff Rules

10-02-2006

Democrat & Chronicle - Ben Rand

Customers Losing Faith in Con Ed

10-08-2006

The Journal News - Allan Drury

270,000 Still Lack Power: Despite Influx of Crews, Some Users May Not Have Electricity until Weekend

10-16-2006

Buffalo News - Michael Beebe

A Power-Grid Report Suggests Some Dark Days Ahead

10-16-2006

NY Times - Matthew Wald

Stuff and Nonsense from Con Ed

10-17-2006

NY Daily News - Editorial

Affordable Energy must be Priority - New York Must Be Able to Compete for Business

11-05-2006

Utica Observer Dispatch - Editorial

PSC Helps Customers Shopping for Power

11-09-2006

Times Union - Larry Rulison

Verizon Cut Repair Worker Jobs Before October Snowstorm: Before Cuts Were Made, Firm Wasn’t Meeting Repair Goals Statewide

11-18-2006

Buffalo News - Fred Williams

Flaws Seen in Markets for Utilities

11-21-2006

NY Times - David Cay Johnston

Pataki Could Appoint Top Regulator

11-28-2006

Associated Press - Michael Gormley

Good Question: How Should We Set The Thermostat?

11-30-2006

WCCO TV - Ben Tracy

State Panel Wants You to Pay Electric Bills for Businesses

12-01-2006

Post Standard - Tim Knauss

Ruling in Utility-overcharge Cases Provide ‘Food For Supreme Court’

12-20-2006

E&E Publishing - Greenwire - Mary O’Driscoll

Warm Weather Gas Rebates Go To NJ, Not NY

12-24-2006

NY Post - Mensur Serifovic

Time to Choose Deadline Approaches for People to Select Electricity Supplier

12-27-2006

Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - Editorial

Familiar Issues Likely in New York’s 2007 Legislative Session

12-27-2006

SNL Financial - Kelly Harrington

Deal Likely Will Lower Gas Company’s Tax Payments: Owego, CNYOG Near Assessment Settlement

12-29-2006

Press & Sun Bulletin - Debbie Swartz