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California's
Energy Crisis
The articles and government documents listed below
will provide information and background on California's energy crisis.
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Do Residents of Corona
Need More Debt for Another Government Bureaucracy? (Dec.
'02)
By Carol Evans
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State Reworks Deals
With 5 Power Firms. (4/23/02)
By Tim Reiterman and Virginia Ellis, Los Angeles Times
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BOE Rejects FTB
Position in Pacificorp Case. (4/19/02)
In a tax appeal where most of the discussion was on an attempt by the
Franchise Tax Board to classify electricity as tangible personal
property for corporate tax apportionment purposes, the State Board of
Equalization on April 17 ruled unanimously for the taxpayer (Appeal of
Pacificorp, No. 90027).
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Consolidating California’s Energy Bureaucracy.
(Feb.02)
By Bill Hauck
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Largest Energy Users Can Still Bypass Utilities
(3/22/02) By Tim Reiterman, Los
Angeles Times
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Energy Project Slowdown May Cause Power Shortages
(Update3) (3/19/02) By Liz
Skinner
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Consolidating California’s Energy Bureaucracy
(Feb.'02)
By Bill Hauck and Allan Zaremberg
- Energy
Price Probes Widen to Include State Officials
Chief of Power Grid to be Questioned
By Mark Martin, San Francisco Chronicle (11/6/2001)
- Edison Bailout? No, Just a Late PUC Bow
to Legal Reality
An editorial from the San Jose Mercury
News (10/4/2001)
- Government Does It Again (Oct.'01)
By Ray Haynes
- Get
State Government Out of the Energy-Buying Business
(Sept. '01) By Larry McCarthy
- Back
from recess, legislators to find focus has shifted in energy crisis
By Ed Mendel, San Diego
Union-Tribune (8/20/2001)
- California
Municipal Utilities Should Be Probed, Lawmaker Says
By Daniel Taub, Bloomberg (8/20/01)
- Electricity:
Who's at Fault? (July '01)
By Pete Wilson, former governor of California
By David Freeman, senior energy adviser
to Governor Davis
- Study:
Summer Blackouts Could Cost the State's Economy
$21.8 Billion; 135,000 Jobs (June '01)
By AUS Consultants
- Assessing the California Energy Crisis (June '01)
By Mark W. Seetin
- Time for New Look at Nuclear Power (June '01)
By Senator Tom McClintock
- Protecting Taxpayers in the Energy Crisis
(May '01)
By Larry McCarthy
- Why
PG&E Chose Bankruptcy Protection (May '01)
By Robert D. Glynn
- The California Energy Market From A Utility Perspective: From Problem to Crisis
to Solutions (May '01)
By Anthony L. Smith
- California Can Survive the Power Crisis Through a Straightforward Business
Approach (May '01)
By Anne M. Cleary
- Energy Crisis: Cutting Through the Myths
(May '01)
By William Keese
- Restless Citizens Should Consider Public Power
(May '01)
By James B. McClatchy
- Public Power Has Its Drawbacks
(May '01)
By Richard J. McCann
- Manifesto on the California Electricity Crisis
(Mar. '01). Click here to
read this Cal-Tax Digest article.
- The
governor's press releases and details of his energy program are
available on his website: http://www.governor.ca.gov/
- Governor acts to boost power
generation
(2/8/2001 11:30 a.m.)
- Governor Davis signs bill to allow
long-term energy contracts and encourage conservation. (2/1/2001
3:32 p.m.)
- Gov. Davis outlines $800-million
energy efficiency and demand reduction program. (2/1/2001 1:00
p.m.)
- Davis
cuts red tape - Plan
speeds plants, vows more energy by summer, San Diego
Union-Tribune (2/9/2001)
- Caltaxletter
coverage of the passage of AB 1X and the governor's executive order on
conservation. (2/1/2001)
- GOP proposes long-term solutions to
energy shortage (1/31/2001)
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