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Kookley at it again...
Sounds like a way to sneak in a $16.3 Million tax increase without raising “taxes”. Just let the company that was fined raise its rates.
Those power companies need to scuttle their hardware and go galt.
What experience does Martha Coakley have in power restoration, besides what the LAW says? I’m guessing none. I live in North Central CT and the damage after the October storm was almost identical to Western Ma.
I don’t know the statistics, but they had to replace thousand of poles and transformers, essentially rebuild miles of the grid from the ground up, including transmission lines in areas. In addition to that, thousands if not tens of thousands of instances of trees and braces on wires.
She also fails to realize that the storm caused over 3 million outages, from West Virginia to Maine. To get enough crews in, you can’t just go south, you have to go west of the Mississippi.
So Joe and Jane Citizen, along with a lot of their friends, have there power out for several days. The state then sues to punish a company that, I am sure, wasn’t sitting on its hands during that outage.
Who will get the money, if coakley is successful? Not Joe and Jane. No, no! The state of Massachusetts, that’s who. You know, the real offended and aggrieved party.
And National Grid has $16 million less to use for a full recovery or to prepare for the next outage.
Makes perfect sense to me. Perfect. Yessiree, bob, perfect.
“The attorney general said restoration should have taken five days...”
YEAH. Because we all know that politicians (AG’s) are experts in electrical grid restoration on a large scale.
Attorney General Martha M. Coakley has a great start in dumbing down our nation's power grid, so it will become more like the power grids in third world countries. Keep it up, girl! Keep denying cost increases and increasing service demands on our power companies! Make them pay!
It is an excellent formula for failure because people do not want to work for nothing. You get what you pay for. What happened to basic economics?
For those who don’t recall Coakley history, here is a reminder of this most evil woman:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575003341640657862.html
Memo yo: Attorney General Martha Coakley
My Take as a Retired Telephone Cable-Repairman(42 yrs) South Florida with a son, Repairman with Florida Power & Light (20+yrs)is this:
Kiss your family goodbye for a week or two. Travel, Sometimes hundreds of miles to a place you’ve never been and work a 16+ hour shifts, among dangerous hazards.
Thousands of people always crying and trying to buy their service to be the first back. Most people I met after the storms of South Florida were understanding. The ones that usually gained my/our respect understood and didn’t expect the unattainable!
By the way the best out of service people i ever met, were in Ft. Lauderdale and the neighborhood brought us coffee and sandwiches at 4AM one morning.