Subject: Utilities Sector

• Why is the Guardian Shilling for PG&E?

  May 16, 2008

• And the Primary Results are In

  June 4, 2008

• Sf Government InAction: Sauron up for Public Utilities Commission, Voldemort to select Chief of Police, Gandalf will bring a budget to save us all! Or something like that

  July 28, 2008

• The Prop. H Campaign's Big Lie

  October 20, 2008

• SFPD Catches "Water Department Scammers"

  The San Francisco Police have arrested three suspects who have been posing as Water Department Personal to gain access to private homes. Once inside the home, one of the suspects would distract the resident while another searched the home for valuables. The three men are suspected of carrying out 15 such robberies over the past two months, mostly targeting Chinese households. A woman who just seen a warning about he scammers on Chinese Television, called police from her 17th Avenue home Frid

  November 17, 2008

• "You Go Down to Moscone Convention Facilities. It's Compostable." And Other Gavin Newsom Environmental Insights from the State of the City Address

  Does Gavin Newsom turn into Stalin when the moon is full? By Benjamin Wachs (This is State of the Citysode III: The Environment. Click here for Part II: Education, and Part 1: Health Care) 00:00 - Gavin begins philosophically. "I like to say that the world's consumption is the sum of all local consumption." Well, he's blown my mind already. 00:35 - "SF Forward" is a five year plan to curb our carbon and consumption. You know, given how inevitable comparisons were between Gavin an

  December 4, 2008

• Green Scheme

  January 14, 2009

• Burn Green Soiree

  November 19, 2008

• Bay Guardian: Newspaper or Political Action Committee?

  October 15, 2008

• Fortunate Sun

  September 17, 2008

• Public Power Grab

  Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  July 16, 2008

• Green Like Me

  December 20, 2006

• The Tide Is High

  June 14, 2006

• Powerful Advice

  May 10, 2006

• Derailing the Jaye Train

  Why Matt Gonzalez should stick with his progressive roots, and ignore pressure to act "responsibly"

  November 19, 2003

• Lee Way

  The public career path of Andrew Lee explains a lot about what's wrong with Willie Brown's style of politics and governance

  November 5, 2003

• Water on the Brain

  One energy executive claims a tidal system that meets the city's electric needs could be built in over 20 years, at a cost of $1.5 billion

  October 15, 2003

• Nuclear, Dude

  January 8, 2003

• Mirant's Morass

  The plan to build a massive new power plant in San Francisco -- once thought inevitable -- hits a few snags

  April 24, 2002

• Attack of the Self-Serving Pol!

  A deft film in which a southland legislator and lazy journalists rewrite history, blame Enron for the energy crisis, and leave Sacramento corruption untouched

  February 13, 2002

• The Perfect Crime

  December 26, 2001

• Will Blackouts Be Back?

  November 14, 2001

• A Vote of Competence

  This is no time for softheaded governing. In this election, Prop. F and Dennis Herrera pass the confidence test; MUD fails completely.

  October 31, 2001

• Dog Bites

  Don't Take This With You to Your Polling Place Nov. 6; War Is Bad. Or Good, Depending.

  October 10, 2001

• Dead Mud Walking

  A ballot measure that would create a Municipal Utility District has so many legal flaws, it's all but DOA. In fact, passing the measure might delay the advent of public power here for years.

  October 10, 2001

• Some People Have All the Luck

  And then there's developer Michael Strausz

  August 29, 2001

• The November Wild Card

  July 4, 2001

• Gray Skies

  If Gov. Davis has his way, California soon will have dozens of new power plants -- a lot of them in the wrong places, some of them unnecessary, and very, very few of them based on renewable energy

  July 4, 2001

• "They're Hijacking Our Rally!"

  Opponents of the Potrero Hill power plant expansion could use a lesson in organization.

  July 4, 2001

• Contract Killings

  How the state's contracts with crucial electric power providers actually encourage them to gouge us

  May 30, 2001

• The Return of the Screw

  PG&E is doing to New England what greedy, polluting, out-of-state energy suppliers have done to PG&E and California

  April 25, 2001

• Dog Bites

  Details, Details; Problem Is, It's Hard to Read in the Dark; PG&E Strikes Back

  April 18, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  April 11, 2001

• MUD in Your Eye

  A small group wants to foist a municipal utility district on the city without evidence its version of "public power" will work. Demand evidence.

  April 4, 2001

• Delusions of Power

  April 4, 2001

• Dim Bulbs

  Greedy out-of-state profiteers make easy targets, but the real villains of California's energy debacle are the ones under the state capitol dome.

  March 7, 2001

• Don't Let Them Turn Out the Lights

  It's time for consumers to take back California

  January 31, 2001

• Regulating Change

  December 27, 2000

• Power Politics

  Why a retreat from electricity deregulation is a victory for PG&E, and a loss for you and me

  September 20, 2000

• Playing Monopoly

  April 5, 2000

• When Do Losers Win?

  August 25, 1999

• PG and ... EEEK!

  June 24, 1998

• Imbalance of Power

  December 31, 1997

• PG&E Is All Charged Up

  The S.F.-based utility embarks on a nationwide buying spree

  May 14, 1997

• SF Gov InAction: Madatory Composting -- And Your Mother -- Are Back In Town

  Well, that's the thing: I thought my mom would know the Snuggie was a gag gift, but she actually thought it was a real gift. So here I'd planned this completely ironic moment, and she was starting to tear up. She actually said "It looks so comfortable, and I get so cold in winter!" Shit! So what could I do? I ... Oh! Hello! I didn't see you there. It's all right, you're not interrupting anything. I was just explaining how my mother got arrested on her special day. Funny story: Apparently

  May 11, 2009

• Graft and Gaming

  June 10, 2009

• Calling All Altruists: District 5 Cleanup on Saturday. As Always, If You Get Trashed, You Can't Pick Up Trash.

  Clean up all the garbage areas in District 5 -- no, clean them all up!​If you've ever had a hankering to clean feces off the mayor's doorstep, then, boy, have we got a deal for you! In yet another test of one's altruism -- or stamina -- the Department of Public Works is tossing us a dilemma: Get trashed on Friday, or rise early and help clean up trash on Saturday? Or both, tough guy? In any event, the benevolent will gather at the Panhandle at Baker and Fell at 9 a.m. for a Saturday clean-up e

  August 7, 2009

• No Smoking: City Attorney Announces Settlement to Shut Mirant Potrero Power Plant 'Irrevocably' By 2010

  Joe EskenaziCity Attorney Dennis Herrera delivers the big news, backed by (from left) PUC head Ed Harrington, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, and former Board of Supes President Aaron Peskin​The answer has been revealed to the "mystery settlement" announced yesterday by City Attorney Dennis Herrera. And as soon as we saw Supervisor Sophie Maxwell and Public Utilities Commission head Ed Harrington in the City Hall elevator, we guessed it -- it's Mirant! Herrera this morning signed off on a settl

  August 13, 2009

• Investigative Report: Marin County Water System Vulnerable to Al-Qaeda Attack

  Does everyone want to live in Marin?​ The Center For Investigative Reporting, the Berkeley nonprofit that recently formed a team of sleuths to take up where downsized California newspapermen and women left off, came out slugging earlier this month. It published a scintillating piece demonstrating Marin County has failed to protect its water treatment system from terrorist attack.The report, authored by longtime San Francisco investigative ace G.W. Schultz, indicated that Marin County used fede

  September 15, 2009

• City Softens Requirements on Clean Energy Master Plan

  City officials have backed off from several of the more ambitious aspects of a planned overhaul of the local power grid that is intended to make San Francisco's energy supply greener and less dependent on Pacific Gas & Electric Co.The promised land​The city's Public Utilities Commission and Local Agency Formation Commission -- commonly known as LAFCo, the commission helps formulate energy policy -- yesterday issued a Request for Proposals from potential bidders who would run the program. C

  November 6, 2009