Prop 16

Lawyers for the coalition of locally owned public utilities suing to disqualify the PG&E-sponsored Proposition 16 from the June 8 statewide ballot offered public statements by PG&E's own chief executive as evidence that the utility's proposed measure is false and misleading, and deliberately intended to conceal its true nature and purpose from California's voters.

According to the petitioners' reply brief filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, an apparently unguarded public exchange between PG&E Corporation Chairman, CEO and President Peter A. Darbee and a stockholder at the company's March 1, 2010 investor conference revealed that the purportedly pro-vote measure actually aims to "greatly diminish" voting, discourage elections, and relieve PG&E from "having to spend millions and millions of shareholder dollars" to campaign against competing energy programs.

Read the petitioners news release: "Legal challenge to Prop 16 highlights PG&E chief's statements as evidence of falsehood, misrepresentation; Lawyers for locally owned utilities challenging proposed amendment cite public admission that measure intends to 'greatly diminish' voting, rather than encourage it" (April 29, 2010)
    Download the PDF of the Prop 16 Legal Challenge Presskit, which includes the complete verified petition for Modesto Irrigation District et al. v. Bowen (filed Mach 18, 2010).

Welcome

California's electric industry is opening to consumer choice, giving you the power to participate in community choice aggregation and choose your electric energy supplier. The San Joaquin Valley Power Authority is made up of Kings County and 8 local cities - Clovis, Dinuba, Hanford, Kerman, Kingsburg, Parlier, Reedley, and Sanger - to engage in regional energy planning and bring energy choice to local residents and businesses in the central San Joaquin Valley.  Details »

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