Schumer to meet with head of FERC to sort out energy mess
Posted by CITIZEN POWER ALLIANCE at 7:30 AMSep. 15--PLATTSBURGH -- U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer will meet with the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about a problem he says has cost state communities millions.
"We must get to the bottom of this greedy scheme," Schumer said in a statement.
Between January and July of this year, energy-market traders were using deceptive trading practices, the senator said, which slammed consumers with millions of dollars in unnecessary, additional fees and put the state at risk for blackouts.
"New Yorkers may have been cheated out of hundreds of millions of dollars because of a rogue energy-trading scheme, and there are a mess of questions left unanswered."
(Click to read entire article)
0 comments:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)