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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: California Seizes Power Contracts
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Bradley Dunn wrote: > At 10:29 PM 2/5/2001 -0800, Brian wrote: > > >Seize is really a poor word choice by the article's author imho. They all > >just wanna scare the crap out of us.. > > We should be scared. California's power industry is being nationalized. Nationalized would be seizure by the Feds, not the state of California. Not sure why we should be scared, though. Government has a pretty good track record of running electric utilities. Right now, LA Water and Power is selling power to the rest of California - partly because they had the good sense early on to buy into the Hoover Dam (another government project). ************************************************************************** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, President & Newtonville, MA 02460-0006 Director, Municipal Telecommunications Strategies Program 617-558-3698 fax: 617-630-8946 [email protected] http://civic.net/ccn.html Information Infrastructure: Public Spaces for the 21st Century Let's Start With: Internet Wall-Plugs Everywhere Say It Often, Say It Loud: "I Want My Internet!" **************************************************************************
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