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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Ind. Gov't. - "James Rogers, Duke's chairman and chief executive, met privately with Gov. Mitch Daniels: Executive tried to keep power plant on track, documents reveal"
Another in a long series of Indianapolis Star stories on the controversy surrounding Duke's Edwardsport plant and the company's relationship with state government. John Russell reports in today's lengthy story:
As costs were spiraling last year at Duke Energy Corp.'s new power plant in Edwardsport, the company's chairman met privately with Gov. Mitch Daniels and asked him to help keep the troubled project on track, according to documents obtained by The Indianapolis Star.James Rogers, Duke's chairman and chief executive, suggested the governor get together with top executives at General Electric and Bechtel, the project's two main contractors, to express concerns over "ongoing cost pressures" at Edwardsport.
Daniels never met with the contractors, for reasons that remain unclear. But some critics say even the suggestion of such a meeting was inappropriate. That's because the project was still winding its way through the state regulatory process, and consumer advocates argue that state officials should have kept Duke executives at an arm's length.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 13, 2011 02:35 PM
Posted to Indiana Government