Washington had a massive fraud event on a pretty egregious level. Billions of tax payer dollars to build five power plants. Only one ever came online. The public utilities sold bonds for the build. Rate payers ended up with the bill. This was around 1984. Known as Whoops! We were going to get electrons for less than it cost to suck them out of the rivers with dams. Screw BPA.
A person would think somebody would have done a bit of research and found this out. clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net > On Aug 7, 2018, at 9:08 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > This thing is turning out to be the most massive fraud ever perpetrated on > the public (SC anyway) and a goodly fraction of our elected “representatives” > are totally complicit in it. The utility and its investors need to take the > haircut and a whole bunch from top to bottom public and private and > in-between need to go to prison after losing everything they have. > > --R > Sent from iPhone > >> On Aug 7, 2018, at 11:58 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
