1997 PG&E Chronology: Power struggle

2002

10-23-02 Supervisors call for rate-hike study
10-23-02 Guess who funded the new report criticizing public power and
10-16-02 Too risky? Too costly? Let us present: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 
10-16-02 The utility likes to pretend it's a good corporate citizen – but
10-16-02 How PG hid $4 billion
10-16-02 Mirant's morass 
10-16-02 Competing energy visions
10-16-02 How PG wires the city 
10-09-02 San Franciscans have much to learn from Rep. Dennis Kucinich's
10-09-02 IBEW local leans on S.F. unions to oppose Proposition D
10-02-02 The truth about the utility's P.R. campaign against public
09-18-02 Activist group tries again to close Diablo Canyon plant 
09-18-02 The Hearst blackout ends  
09-04-02 The $620 million shakedown
09-04-02 PG's whopping bills and rotten service are pushing small
09-02-02 Intro to Issue and Prop d battle 
08-28-02 Prop. D wins a string of key endorsements 
08-21-02 Powering ahead  
07-04-02 San Francisco 8, PG 3  
06-19-02 Real public power 
06-19-02 Public power lite 
06-12-02 Mayor Brown and some labor leaders want to soften Sup. Tom Ammiano's new
03-27-02 Potrero poison 
01-23-02 Need for radioactive storage gives activists a new weapon

2001

11-07-01 Public power is safe 
11-07-01 Big money spent in last-minute pitch to fight public power
11-14-01 PG&E didn't win
10-31-01 Countdown to public power
10-31-01 Neilands letter to the Chronicle
10-31-01 Mud vote: Down to the wire
10-31-01 How to vote for MUD directors
10-31-01 PG&E's candidate
10-31-01 For Brisbane: Dana Dillworth
10-24-01 PG's toxic toll
10-24-01 PG&E is already gone
10-24-01 Countdown to public power
10-24-01 PG&E is no choice 
10-19-01 Public power: you own it
10-17-01 Nader to S.F.: Vote for the MUD
10-17-01 Countdown to public power
10-17-01 PG's propaganda war, part III
10-17-01 Don't buy PG's lies
10-10-01 PG's web of influence
10-10-01 MUD money
10-10-01 The 32 years war
10-10-01 Money and power
10-10-01 Public power vs. PG
10-10-01 Why is the Chron ignoring public power?                    
10-10-01 What happened to Hearst?
10-10-01 Public power in San Francisco: Best-case scenario
10-10-01 SF Public power: Worst-case scenario
10-03-01 PG&E and allies spend big bucks to fight public power
10-03-01 Countdown to public power
10-03-01 PG&E's new lies
09-26-01 Green, public power
09-26-01 LAFCO beefs up public power feasibility report
09-26-01 How San Francisco can lead the nation into energy independence with
09-19-01 Reasons no. 3 and no. 4 to vote for Props. F and I
09-19-01 Edison bailout falters, utilities amp up anti-MUD campaign despite
09-19-01 Testimony of Ed Smeloff, Assistant General Manager, Power Policy of the
09-12-01 Reason no. 2 to vote for Props. F and I            
09-12-01 Supervisor Yee endorses Props. F and I    
09-05-01 Countdown to public power
09-05-01 What's PG's plan? (against mud)
05-23-01 Ammiano's power plan
05-23-01 Road fools - Electric bikes and the k-ching! of pollution
05-23-01 Tom Ammiano introduces public power charter amendment
05-23-01 Bay Guardian and ratepayers booted from PG proceedings
05-16-01 An S.F. energy policy (MUD)
05-16-01 Labor endorses public power
05-09-01 PG's propaganda war, part two
05-07-01 Bush league energy policy
05-09-01 How kilowatt socialism saved L.A. from the energy crisis
04-18-01 PG's secret strategy: more deregulation            
04-09-01 Guardian response to SF Weekly
03-28-01 S.F. power district may not need Brisbane after all                    
03-28-01 Study shows energy crisis was created by power suppliers                            
03-21-01 opinion:  Electricity and democracy
02-28-01 The wrong energy path
02-28-01 How our energy policies are killing our planet.
02-21-01 Another bailout looms
02-14-01 The energy crossroads
02-07-01 Sneak attack (on MUD by city attorney)
01-31-01 POWER CRUNCH   (PBS transcript) 
01-31-01 The harder they fall: The last days of PG and SoCal Edison
01-24-01 The real blackout
01-24-01 Power for the people
01-15-01 Deregulation disaster
01-05-01 The Confederate Cartel's war against California
01-03-01 Solving the energy crisis

2000

01-10-00 Businesses take on overcharging by Detroit Edison  how many
07-26-00 opinion: The price of power by medea benjamin
06-21-00 Power hungry in Silicon Valley
09-06-00 George W. Bush's toxic money pipeline    
06-07-00 Willie Brown and PG shut down the Hunters Point power plant 
06-07-00 Why S.F. needs a MUD
06-07-00 The Hetch Hetchy hostage crisis
06-07-00 State legislature approves move to give $28.5 billion bailout to
06-07-00 How S.F. voters can replace PG with cleaner, greener, cheaper, public
08-16-00 PG blocks MUD election
06-07-00 San Francisco MUD?
                                                                           
1999

07-07-99 PG wants to keep its dams -- at the expense of public power

1998

01-28-98 Poison power
10-14-98 Are the utilities paying environmental and consumer groups to oppose Prop. 9? 
12-16-98 Last week's blackout again raises the question: Should the city depend

1997

12-03-97 Pew moves to set U.S. energy deregulation agenda. 
09-03-97 Ducking deregulation 
09-03-97 Public power's new world 
97       The shame of San Francisco

1988

02-30-88 A chronology of sellouts and secrecy, 1982-1988 
02-24-88 PG wins big: Eight SF supervisors approve the contracts without
02-17-88 Feinstein's Timely Cave-in

10-30-41 "Gov. Olson Calls For Finish Fight Against PG He Wants to See Utility Taken 
04-22-40 UNITED STATES v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 310 U.S. 16