Have the FirstEnergy-Bush connections been discussed yet?

[tridim]

Apparently FirstEnergy owns the power plant that kicked off the blackout yesterday. There are some very interesting connections here.

Gigantic campaign contributions, EPA violations, company wide Bush support, broken campaign promises on CO2 emmissions on behalf of FirstEnergy lobbyists.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=FirstEnergy+bush

[seventhson]

1. Great work!!! Link to Blackout?

I'm tired or I would do it myself.

[gristy]

2. not that I know of

Those are a LOT of very, very interesting hits. Are you sure FirstEnergy owns the plant that started the blackout?

If true, THAT would appear to be a very, very big problem for bushco.

[htuttle]

3. Yes, they own Ohio Edison

Ohio Edison is faulted with not removing itself from the grid when the spike happened. It was likely due to this that the cascade spread east to NYC.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/US/power030815_GMplant.html
The Ohio power company failed to separate from the national electric grid, as it was supposed to and as Michigan did. Thus the cascade of problems was sent on to New York.

"The system is designed to isolate itself to protect that area, to have the area go down and have the rest of the system survive. And instead it spread further and longer than it should have," said Michehl R. Gent, president and CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Council.

A spokesman for the Ohio power company, FirstEnergy Corp., said it had followed all proper procedures but would not comment specifically on whether it had triggered the huge blackout by failing to separate.

"If they had separated you might have seen a region in Ohio area that would have been without power, but you would not have seen it in almost a national scale, as we did," Divan said.

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I wasn't aware of the Bush connections you found. Interesting...

[maha]

5. Yes! Yes! Yes!

More logs for the fire!

[jfkennedy]

8. Conservative Incompetents

That's interesting as a resident of New York City I noticed while I was listening to the radio during the blackout out the Republican PR brainwashing campaign was similar to the 9/11 PR campaign saying things like:

Con Ed is making a heroic effort to fix the problems. That was the basic mantra said over and over and over again by the conservatives.

If it was not for these heroes where would we be.

Then right before the lights get turned on they put out a PR commercial that only by building Nuke plants from the West coast to the East coast can another blackout be prevented.

It's ironic that as the same time he was saying this that it was the same system of deregulagation that caused 9/11 and the blackout.

And of course he thanked the little people for not resorting to violence.


http://antiwarmonger.com

[ElsewheresDaughter]

16. SLAPPING THE DONKEY UNTIL IT KICK S BUSH* OUT

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. The owner is a Bu$h pioneer

Tony Alexander
President
First Energy Corp.


First Energy is nation's 10th-largest investor-owned electric utility, and owns fossil and nuclear power plants; the company also produces and sells oil and gas; a Bush "pioneer" (raised more than $100,000 in individual contributions to the George W. Bush presidential campaign)

http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/aplayers2.asp

Guess Tony is too busy fund raising for Bu$h and spending all his profits to get in Bu$h's pioneer club, to bother with spending money on upgrading infrastructure.

[kentuck]

9. Very interesting !

They don't want the people to know that.

http://www.earthjustice.org/news/display.html?ID=498

<snip>
FirstEnergy Corp., a major electric utility with subsidiaries involved in ongoing New Source Review enforcement actions, gave $705,516 to the Bush-Cheney campaign and the RNC in 1999, as well as $100,000 to the Bush Inaugural Fund. FirstEnergy President and chair Anthony Alexander was also a Bush Pioneer, promising to raise at least $100,000 for the presidential campaign.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. kick..also tony alexander was part of cheney's secert energy meetings

[DUreader]

6. Good morning kick

!!!

[hedda_foil]

7. Mid morning kick

[NYC]

10. Evening kick.

There is so much information relating to this blackout that I am having trouble just copying it all.

[ComerPerro]

11. Damn liberal media

This is all over the news.

Oh, wait, you mean it isn't?
Gee, I'm confused.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

12. yup and that Alexander guy president of FirstEnergy is a Bush* Pioneer

raised over $100,000 for chimp,,oh yeah and tony alexander was also in on cheney's secert meetings of the energy task forse

[PurityOfEssence]

14. Hmmm, didn't want to face reality or do the honorable thing

Sounds Republican to me...

[whatelseisnew]

15. kick