Power Grab Videos

WHERE'S DARBEE?! - Geesman on Prop 16
In this excerpt from the March 23, 2010 California Public Utilities Commission Hearing on Prop 16, former Energy Commissioner John Geesman ( http://greenenergywar.com/ ) gives his critique of PG&E's proposed constitutional amendment and asks, "Where is Peter A. Darbee, Chairman, CEO and President of the PG&E Corporation?" Why isn't he appearing before the CPUC to explain his company's rationale for an anti-democratic measure designed to mislead voters, kill local clean energy projects like those ready to go live in Marin County and San Francisco, and enshrine PG&E's energy monopoly permanently in California's constitution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so5maL94w20

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Clean Power v. Dirty Tricks - Pt. 1
Date: 3-17-2010. Topic: PG&E's Prop 16. Place: The steps of the California Public Utilities Commission. A press conference co-sponsored by the Local Clean Energy Alliance and the Greenlining Institute featuring David Room and Colin Miller. A rally sponsored by the Local Clean Energy Alliance. Song, signs and get-em-there organizing by Megan Matson of Mainstreet Moms. Speakers: TURN representative Mark Toney; San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6teGp3pAhQ

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"Stop PG&E's Power Grab" Pt. 1 of 3
A Special Harvey Milk Club PAC Town Hall on Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) projects in San Francisco and Marin County and the threat to them posed by PG&E's stealth initiative in this June's election, Prop 16. Posted in 3 parts as a public educational service.

In this segment Bay Guardian Editor-in-Chief Tim Redmond, former CA. State Senator Carol Migden - sponsor of AB 117, California's CCA legislation - and the law's main author, Paul Fenn of Local Power, provide background on Prop 16, PG&E's desperate attempt to kill publicly-owned clean power projects in California and across the country and make it's energy monopoly part of California's constitution.

For more info: www.PowerGrab.Info, www.BigFatNoProp16.com, TURN.org, local.org, www.WomensEnergyMatters.org, www.LocalCleanEnergy.org, www.MarinEnergyAuthority.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX7oeEzpkRU

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"Stop PG&E's Power Grab" Pt. 2 of 3
A Special Milk Club PAC Town Hall on Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) projects in San Francisco and Marin County and the threat to them posed by PG&E's stealth initiative in this June's election, Prop 16. Posted in 3 parts as a public educational service.In this segment, San Francisco Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and David Campos, Sierra Club's John Rizzo, SF City College's Green Technology Program Director Chris Jackson and SF Green Party's Eric Brooks provide background on Prop 16, PG&E's desperate attempt to kill publicly-owned clean power projects in California and across the country and make it's energy monopoly part of California's constitution.Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXYHkqEPBL4

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"Stop PG&E's Power Grab" Pt. 3 of 3
A Special Milk Club PAC Town Hall on Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) projects in San Francisco and Marin County and the threat to them posed by PG&E's stealth initiative in this June's election, Prop 16. Posted in 3 parts as a public educational service.

In this segment panelists answer questions from the audience on Prop 16, PG&E's desperate attempt to kill publicly-owned clean power projects in California and across the country and make it's energy monopoly part of California's constitution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUQgy3H6mzU

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Prop 16 vs. Public Power
Paul Hauser, Director of the Publicly-Owned Electric Utility, Redding, CA tells why PG&E's Prop 16 is an attack on municipally-owned utilities. This is his testimony at the joint Legislative Hearing held in Sacramento, Feb. 25, 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sSQdktT3oM

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Prop 16's 3 Tapeworms
John L. Geesman, Former Executive Director of the California Energy Commission, tells why he opposes PG&E's Prob 16. He identifies what he calls '3 Tapeworms' in the drafting of the initiative up for a vote on the June ballot: Tapeworm #1 is the elimination of customer choice; Tapeworm #2 is the mystery of where all this campaign money is coming from; Tapeworm #3 is a serious drafting error in the "grandfather clause" of Proposition 16 -- every new home buyer, every new business -- would be subject to an election requiring the approval of two-thirds of the voters. This is an excerpt of his testimony at the joint Legislative Hearing held in Sacramento, Feb. 25, 2010.
For more info: http://bigfatnoprop16.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/hearing-on-prop-16/ and http://www.powergrab.info/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS12nLbWkBA

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MEGAN MATSON at CPUC
Speaking for Marin County's broad coalition of citizen groups supporting the Marin Energy Authority's clean energy program, Megan Matson of Mainstreet Moms draws the attention of the California Public Utilities Commission to PG&E's deceptive, highly funded, anti-democratic campaign to block the Marin program and prevent other California communities from following suit.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ5bMiWHk0A

PG&E'S PROP 16 Joint Legislative Hearing Feb. 25, 2010.
In 4 Parts.

Joint Legislative Hearing Feb. 25, 2010. Pt. 1 of 4 - Office of Legislative Analysis Staff Report
This hearing includes passionate testimony by brave California legislators, city and agency officials and citizens standing up to PG&E, one of the most powerful corporations in the U. S., about Prop. 16 .

Deceptively marketed by PG&E with a $35 million P.R. budget as safeguarding 'tax-payer rights,' Prop 16's real aim is to halt the spread of publicly-owned, non-profit, greener power systems, eliminate competition, and make the giant utilitiy's status as an unregulated private monopoly a permanent part of California's constitution.

It uses ratepayer money to hoodwink voters/taxpayers into giving PG&E unlimited power to raise rates and utimately be the ONLY choice for electricity in its territory.

This is public domain official government video footage presented in four unedited parts as a public service.

PG&E'S PROP 16 - Pt. 1 of 4 Office of Legislative Analysis Staff Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxIsM775x-E

PG&E'S PROP 16 - Pt. 2 of 4 Proponents' Presentations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0nHfXeAdDw

PG&E'S PROP 16 - Pt. 3 of 4 - Opponents' Presentations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zun-xjFWXuo

PG&E'S PROP 16 - Pt. 4 of 4 - Public Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl6LdFxE32M