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CL&P's Profit Jump, Staffing Levels Will Draw Scrutiny
The Hartford CourantThe ranks of line crews at Connecticut Light & Power Co. are so thin that it's not unusual for workers to be on call eight out of 13 weekends, especially during the summer vacation season, a longtime line worker said. "It puts a lot of pressure on your...Tags: Service Electric Inc., Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Waterbury, Renovation
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Snowstorm Upsets Campaign Calculus
The Hartford CourantPolitics-as-usual ended Oct. 29 when the snow started falling. The unusual October snowstorm and the widespread power failures it caused ruined the traditional get-out-the-vote push in the last week before Election Day. There wouldn't be any knocking on...Tags: Rocky Hill, Southington, Wethersfield, Local Elections, Waterbury
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CL&P Union Leaders: Staffing Too Low, Executive Pay Too High
The Hartford CourantLeaders at two unions representing line workers at Connecticut Light & Power Co. attacked the company as frustration over the pace of power restoration grew Wednesday, arguing that staffing levels are too low to allow quick response to a crisis of the...Tags: Government, Volleyball, Public Employees, Lotto, Companies and Corporations
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How Could CL&P Not Know What We Were In For?
The Hartford CourantThe first priority is to get the electricity back on and to make sure all citizens, particularly elderly residents living alone, are safe. But it's also time to ask what Connecticut Light & Power was doing in the days and hours before the storm when a...Tags: Joe Furey, Government, Halloween, Litchfield County, West Hartford
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CL&P Says Plenty Of Power Restored; Butler Says 97 Percent With Power After Storm Worse Than Irene
After getting blasted repeatedly by mayors, first selectmen, and his own customers for the past week, embattled utility president Jeffrey Butler spent time Monday night giving perspective on the intensity of the pre-Halloween storm and the difficulty to...Tags: Connecticut Light and Power, East Haven, Halloween, Volleyball, Tropical Storms
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Malloy Talks Tougher About CL&P, Mentions Possible 'Malfeasance'
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, in a State Capitol press conference, used tough words against CL&P Monday – mentioning the possibility of “malfeasance” by the company, for example – and said his administration would be sure “that...Tags: Government, Standards, Business Enterprises, Malpractice, Companies and Corporations
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Malloy requests that banks play nice. That's wrong. He should tell them.
Lost in the righteous anger toward Connecticut Light & Power last week was Gov. Dan Malloy's soft request of banks across the state to do the right thing. Listen, he essentially said, people are out of power and have been handicapped for days. A lot of...Tags: Government, Occupy Wall Street, Financial and Business Services, Companies and Corporations, Finance
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11/13/2011-Heroes
We the peeps of Connecticut have been angry at Northeast Utilities and CL&P, justifiably so, in my opinion. But there is one group of people we are not angry with, in fact, we are grateful to.
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Simsbury, Tolland, South Windsor Leaders Testify At Two Storm Panel Against CL&P Storm Performance
Tell us the bad news early. Frustrated town officials from Simsbury, Tolland, Somers, and Roxbury delivered that message when they testified in front of Gov. Dannel Malloy's Two Storm commission Tuesday as huge mounds of brush remained piled along the...Tags: Labor Legislation, Halloween, Conservation, Norwich, Oceans
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Governors Malloy, Markell Travel Together To Kuwait, Afghanistan; Two Democrats Love Traveling; Markell Campaigned In Hartford For Malloy
In Afghanistan this week, they were side by side. In Kuwait, too. Not long ago, Govs. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut and Jack Markell of Delaware were together in Hartford as well — to talk about the best ways to create jobs. And a year before...Tags: Government, Trips and Vacations, Stamford, Tom Foley, Kuwait
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CL&P Chief Jeffrey Butler Resigns After Storm Of Controversy
The Hartford CourantJeffrey D. Butler, president of Connecticut Light & Power Co., resigned Thursday after a brutal few weeks in which he became the lightning rod for outrage — and the public face of failures by the utility — following two paralyzing storms...Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Government, Entertainment, West Hartford, Television
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Power To The People
In the wake of serious electric outages in Connecticut, it would seem that speaking truth to power was never more urgently needed. For far too long energy distribution companies in CT have swaggered with their control of a hostage consumer market...Tags: Lobbying, Solar Energy, Conservation, Alternative Energy, Companies and Corporations
Nov 5, 2011
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Nov 10, 2011
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Nov 21, 2011
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