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Perot Systems Seen Offering ‘Crime School’ to CA Market Players

In some of his most colorful language yet in the still-unfolding western energy trading scandals, Portland, OR-based economic consultant Robert McCullough late last month assessed some of the documents turned over to California state legislators by Plano, TX-based Perot Systems Corp, offering an unnamed energy lawyer’s assessment that the Perot firm ran a veritable “crime school” for at least nine would-be market participants in 1997-98, even before the state’s industry restructuring kicked off.

July 8, 2002

North Slope, Canadian Politicians, Producers Urge Pipe Construction

A panel of Alaskan and Canadian politicians painted a colorful picture in Houston last week of why pipeline construction to the Lower 48 from Alaska has never been more urgent — or more confusing. Unanimous in their belief that the North Slope could deliver needed gas supplies, they still could not agree on where or how many pipelines should be built.

April 9, 2001

North Slope, Canadian Politicians Urge Pipe Construction

A panel of Alaskan and Canadian politicians painted a colorful picture in Houston Tuesday of why pipeline construction to the Lower 48 from Alaska has never been more urgent — or more confusing. They are unanimous in their belief that the North Slope could deliver needed gas supplies, they still could not agree on where or how many pipelines should be built. Producers said they have just started studying pipeline routes and would rather not be pushed into one project rather than another.

April 4, 2001