U.S. energy secretary says weeks needed to analyze blackout data
The media's attention may already have turned to the next big story, but the investigation of the blackout and FirstEnergy's role is still ongoing. The Stamford Advocate reports:
Speaking Wednesday in Detroit, Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich criticized the Bush administration's efforts to investigate the blackout as not thorough enough. Investigators are expected to focus on the direct cause, rather than analyzing trends such as deregulation that may have indirectly contributed to the outage.
Kucinich, a congressman from Ohio, stressed the importance of nonprofit, publicly owned electric utilities in the United States and Canada.
"The blackout that occurred a couple weeks ago is a symptom of a system that is sick through deregulation - a system where private control of utilities has meant less service, service vulnerabilities, high rates," he said.
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