Major Bush Campaign Contributor FirstEnergy Scrutinized in Blackout Probe

The company is accustomed to scrutiny.

Its Davis-Besse nuclear plant east of Toledo has been shut down since February 2002, when it was closed for maintenance. A month later, a leak was found that had allowed boric acid to eat nearly through the 6-inch-thick steel cap on the plant's reactor vessel.

On Saturday, a top investigator said the failure of three transmission lines in northern Ohio likely started Thursday's blackout that swept into eight states and Ontario.

Investigators were "fairly certain" that the problem started in Ohio, said Michehl Gent, head of the North American Electric Reliability Council. "We are now trying to determine why the situation was not brought under control."

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It's 2nd on top stories now.

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A lot of them of Mary Carey, the porn star running for Gov in CA. Too funny!

Re-regulation. And enforce the reregulations.

Holding power hostage for profit is treasonous. It is NOT in the best interest of the nation. Therefore power should not be in the hands of those who act against the best interests of the nation.

Until we take it, we don't have a prayer of reregulation.

Learn from the bastards.

interesting they used the same trick that the plants that went off line in cali during their power cuts..maintanice..ohio used it to go around the law.cali plants used it to keep power off line to raise prices...
the govenor of our state-il. decided to set up a panel to see if this could happen in il. i bet there`s alot of govenors thinking the same way. and we haven`t heard what canada is going to do...

Tut-tut

FirstEnergy Corp., before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality (Oct. 10, 2001) (testifying on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute in favor of legislation to establish incentive pricing)

Vice President Cheney refuses to answer questions from the GAO (Government Accounting Office) as to Enron's involvement in the G.W. Bush's energy plan.

The people who benefited from the energy policy are the same executives taking the 5th. They benefitted from the increased stock price that came about from unregulated energy prices that were exploited for gain by Enron executives. That much seems pretty clear.

The analysis in this report reveals that numerous policies in the White House energy plan are virtually identical to the positions Enron advocated.

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First Energy's CEO, was also on Cheney's Energy Transistion Team. I wonder if Cheney was with him, when they flipped the switches off. Heard things were getting hot down at the WH and they needed another distraction.