UTILITIESScana accountant testifies she was made to lie about reactor costsPublished: Tuesday, August 7, 2018
A former accountant for Scana Corp. has testified that top executives at the utility pressured her to lie to regulators about how much it would cost to complete a S.C. nuclear project that was later abandoned. Carlette Walker, who was responsible for spending oversight at the V.C. Summer project, had to give sworn statements to state regulators on the increased rates that subsidiary SCE&G was charging customers to fund the two reactors. Walker said she quit in June 2016 "because I wasn't going to lie," and named a former chief executive, a former operations chief and former chief financial officer when asked during the deposition who forced her to lie. A voicemail left by Walker in early 2016 was also played for the circuit court judge, who is overseeing the civil suit that seeks $2 billion in compensation for utility customers — the amount they've paid to date for the project. In the voicemail, Walker is heard accusing Scana executives of "breaking every friggin' law that you can break," and propping up the project to hit profit targets and collect millions in bonuses (Tom Barton, Columbia [S.C.] *State* <https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article216050955.html>, Aug. 3). *— DI* _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
