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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (84724)	1/19/2001 1:57:54 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Bush on energy and California cnn.com In Washington, President-elect George W. Bush told CNN that solving California's power shortage might require the loosening of environmental regulations. "If there's any environmental regulations that's preventing California from having a 100 percent max output at their plants, as I understand there may be, then we need to relax those regulations," Bush said. "The situation in California underlies what I was saying in the course of the campaign," Bush said. "We have an energy problem." He said energy conservation should be promoted, but the "best way to make sure we have energy independence is to encourage more exploration." At a Senate confirmation hearing, Energy Secretary-designate Spencer Abraham said that Bush views California's power crisis as "an urgent priority" but that it's premature to speculate on actions the federal government might take

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (84724)	1/19/2001 3:52:18 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Respond to of 95453

zeuspaul, For California, there needs to be some coordination with the feds' actions and reconciliation with adjacent western states too. With the Feds for e.g., outgoing Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt in one of his not too smart moves designated a large National Monument just south of Phoenix in the recent monument designation frenzy of the Clinton Administration. Unfortunately the monument designation (it does have some vague caveat language to the contrary) lies directly astride the proposed transmission line routes for a number of these merchant power that were being built south of Phoenix specifcially in order to serve the California market. Also state-wise California kind of rubbed the noses of all of the adjacent westen states in the dirt a few months ago over the Ward Nuclear Waste Facility. It was a nuclear waste facility that California was supposed to be building in order to satisfy its interstate hazardous waste disposal requirements under RCRA, NRC requirements for about $100mm US. Well a number of westenr states organizaitons put out milions to help study and fund its initial construction- and then Gray Davis out of the blue unilaterally cancelled the project without any warning tot he adjacent states' Governors a few months ago. Lots of adjacent states ate unrecoverable million dollar outlays. Now California comes to these same states a few months later and demands their power "backdoor" through FERC orders. Add in that Davis is a leftist Democrat and the adjacent states are governed by Republicans and you have the factor of the Democratic Governor not wanting publicly to beg Republicans for help and admitting that his Califronia state dergulation plans were really poorly designed and implemented.