Dec. 18, 2008: Community and Tax Payer Protest at CA Public Utility Commission Hearing
Please read the following exchange:
Question from Rudy Asercion, NaFFAA City/County Chair for San Francisco: Edison is a Southern California gas and electricity provider. Can you tell us where to find the information that PG&E, the San Francisco-based energy provider is or will be seeking a similar rate increase?
Answer from Sam Kang, community organizer and attorney for the Greenlining Institute: Approximately every three years the major utilities, including PG&E, ask for what is called a general rate increase on their services. PG&E last initiated a request for a general rate increase in 2006. Hence, PG&E will be gearing up soon for their next general rate increase. So in the case of PG&E, this protest will serve as a preemptive message that indiscriminate rate increases during a recession, even in the intermediate future, will be met with resistance.
Dear Santa: We, Californians, have been good even though it’s been a very difficult year.
Please tell the Governor to:
* Stop the CPUC from allowing $5,000,000,000 utility rate increases
* Help us save our homes
* Block further increases on our energy bills during a recession with record high unemployment
before the Governor’s five California Public Utility Commissioners!
* Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008
* Location: 505 Van Ness Ave. (near Golden Gate St., near City Hall) San Francisco, CA
SCHEDULE:
* 8:30 am - Assembly outside the building
* 9:00am - Meeting with Mike Peevey, President of the California Public Utilities Commission
* 9:20am – Go to Auditorium for the hearing with the five CPUC Commissioners
* 9:30am – Testimonies begin; ½ hour only
* 10:00am, approximately – Press Conference outside the building
Contacts: Faith Bautista, Mabuhay Alliance - (858) 586-7382; bautistafaith@yahoo.com
Samuel Kang, Greelining Institute – (510) 926.4004; samuelk@greenlining.org
Jose Pecho, NaFFAA – (415) 240-4906; jp8cho@aol.com