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ERCOT Managers Resign After Widespread Storm Outages
Rick Rojas 15 mins ago
Five officials will resign from the board overseeing the Texas power grid after it was pushed to the brink of collapse by the recent winter storm, leaving millions without electricity during some of the coldest temperatures the state has experienced in a generation.
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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the board that governs the flow of power for more than 26 million people in the state, has been blamed for the widespread outages, prompting the governor, lawmakers and federal officials to begin inquiries into the system’s failures, particularly in preparation for cold weather.
The five board members, who intend to resign at the conclusion of a meeting scheduled for Wednesday morning, were all from outside of Texas, a point of contention for critics who questioned the wisdom of outsiders playing such an influential role in the state’s infrastructure.
In a statement on Tuesday filed with the Public Utility Commission, four of the board members said they were stepping down “to allow state leaders a free hand with future direction and to eliminate distractions.” In a footnote, the filing added that a fifth member was also resigning.
Those departing are Sally Talberg, the chairwoman and a former state utility regulator who lives in Michigan; Peter Cramton, the vice chairman and an economics professor at the University of Cologne in Germany and the University of Maryland; Terry Bulger, a retired banking executive who lives in Illinois; Raymond Hepper, a former official with the agency overseeing the power grid in New England; and Vanessa Anesetti-Parra, who oversees regulatory affairs for a company headquartered in Canada. Another person who was supposed to fill a vacant seat, Craig S. Ivey, has withdrawn from the 16-member board.
The board became the target of blame and scrutiny after the winter storm last week brought the state’s electric grid precariously close to a complete blackout that could have taken months to recover from. In a last-minute effort to avert that, the council, known as ERCOT, ordered rolling outages that plunged much of the state into darkness and caused electricity prices to skyrocket. Some customers had bills well over $10,000.
The weather crippled the system as power plants were knocked offline and pumps used to produce the natural gas needed to fuel them froze over.
State officials have said ERCOT had offered assurances that the power infrastructure was prepared to endure winter conditions.
“But those assurances proved to be devastatingly false,” Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement, adding, “When Texans were in desperate need of electricity, ERCOT failed to do its job and Texans were left shivering in their homes without power.”
the arrest of El Chapo's wife was a YUGE YUGE DEAL
>the arrest of El Chapo's wife was a YUGE YUGE DEAL
Means Donald Trump is still in control
Tiger crash was the cabal's answer to Mrs. El Chapo going down
yes..their response…their warning
The cable news media didn't even cover Mrs elchapo
Mrs. El Chapo was arrested at Dulles Airport…right in the middle of their territory.
how mad did that make them?
yes he did
unlike the Gov Kemp's daughter's boyfriend?
grandson of another governer? Purdue
did Purdue just drop out of running for senate 2022
is bidan's cabinet picks, 90 % of which are jewish, representative of America?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sen-merkley-gop-senators-used-hearing-on-capitol-attack-to-push-big-myth/vi-BB1dXfkt?ocid=msedgntp
Sen. Merkley: GOP senators used hearing on Capitol attack to push 'big myth'
Duration: 03:20 34 mins ago
“To have these colleagues try to turn this hearing into, 'Let’s perpetuate the big myth.' The big myth that this had nothing to do with interrupting the vote,” says Sen. Merkley, “It was astounding.”
Chris Hayes asks Merkley if Hawley and Cruz have apologized yet for their role in riots
ok
what caused that attack?
which authorities arrested mrs elchapo?
https://news.yahoo.com/wife-el-chapo-appears-court-001040299.html
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Wife of "El Chapo" appears in court over drug trafficking charges
Tue, February 23, 2021, 6:10 PM
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Jeff Pegues
The wife of the former drug lord known as "El Chapo" was arrested in the U.S. and is facing charges of drug smuggling and helping plan her husband's escape from a Mexico prison. Jeff Pegues reports.
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Tonight, as the drug lord known as El Chapo serves a life sentence in Colorado, his wife is also behind bars. She was arrested Monday at Dulles Airport on charges of drug trafficking and helping to plan her husband's infamous escape in Mexico. Here's CBS's Jeff Pegues.
JEFF PEGUES: Today, the former beauty queen appeared before a judge in Washington DC. She is alleged to have played a key role in Guzman's bold 2015 prison break during which a Sinaloa cartel construction crew carved out a mile long escape tunnel under Mexico's Altiplano maximum security prison.
El Chapo's subsequent arrest, extradition to the US, trial, and conviction gave his wife, who was more than 30 years younger, a platform to seek her own notoriety. She regularly attended her husband's trial in New York and also appeared on a reality TV show called "The Cartel Crew."
MICHAEL VIGIL: She is a wealth of knowledge because she knows full well the inner workings of the Sinaloa cartel.
JEFF PEGUES: And that may be what investigators are counting on. Jeff Pegues, CBS News, Washington.