Enron convictions shouldn't effect CA consumers

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published May 24, 2006 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 19 years ago.

A consumer advocate says the convictions of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling won't make a difference to the pocketbooks of California consumers. Michael Shames with the Utility Co

A consumer advocate says the convictions of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling won't make a difference to the pocketbooks of California consumers. Michael Shames with the Utility Consumers Action Network, calls the verdicts a small consolation:

Shames: These men will likely spend the next 10-20 years in the minimum security prison affectionately called club fed as while we are continuing and will have to over the next ten years payback for some $45-billion in overcharges as a result of the catastrophe that once was called energy reform.

California Senator Joe Dunn says the verdicts do little to get back billions
of dollars he says Enron ripped off from Californians. Dunn chaired a committee that investigated energy price manipulation in California.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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