[Watchdogs] PEC skullduggery

[Bill Christensen]

Skullduggery?

Nice word, but I don't think it applies.  At least not yet.

I personally haven't seen a "rush toward green power" from the Board 
or from PEC as a whole.  In fact, I've seen pretty much the opposite 
- severe foot dragging.  (Yes, I'm unabashedly pro-renewables.)  I 
haven't seen any proposal from the committee which is supposed to be 
making recommendations, and I haven't seen any serious movement from 
the Board itself aside from appointing a committee.

Maybe I haven't been paying as close attention as some of you, but 
the only talk I've really seen of late regarding renewable energy has 
be speculative at best, right here on the Watchdogs list.

It's fine for us to talk about what we feel is fair and what we feel 
is best for PEC here on the Watchdogs... that's why it's here.  It's 
also fine to call for more transparency from the Board about what 
they're considering.  (...and here I'm hoping that the vaunted 
Strategic Plan is not just a bunch of feel-good PR).

But until there's actually something on the table, I suggest that we 
tone down the conspiracy theories.

At 8:38 PM -0800 11/12/10, Carlos Higgins wrote:
>PEC Member/owners
>
>
>If Machiavelli were around, he'd probably take the secretive actions 
>of our current PEC Board in stride, but we should not.  Our Board 
>members (and some of their strong supporters) apparently have 
>decided their ends are so noble, those ends fully justify the means. 
>With the old Board, the end objective was personal gain for a few at 
>the expense of PEC member/owners.  Now, it appears the end objective 
>is a rush to green power with no opportunity for PEC member/owners 
>to discuss and debate the issue, even though it will probably be at 
>considerable expense to the member/owners.  The trouble with this 
>approach is this: there is not a dime's worth of difference between 
>the means used by the old gang and the means used by our new gang. 
>In either case, the means rests upon secrecy and duplicity.  We 
>deserve better!
>If more green power at the PEC is justified, it's time for our Board 
>members to develop good arguments and find enough backbone to face 
>the member/owners with those arguments and persuasion.  It's time 
>for the Board members to make the case to the member/owners they 
>supposedly represent and call upon the majority to decide, instead 
>of trying to make a devious end-run around them
>
>

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