SCRANTON TIMES-REVIEW EDITORIAL: …PPL violated PUC regulations when it diverted a work crew. The company agreed to pay $60,000, while acknowledging no wrongdoing, provided that the PUC not divulge details of the violation. Incredibly, the PUC acquiesced even though its own enabling statute requires public access to its information, as noted by attorney Melissa Melewsky of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association…
According to the PUC, disclosure would jeopardize the source who tipped the agency to the violation and potentially expose the source to retaliation – an argument that would be more convincing had the letter it received not been anonymous…
This kowtowing to utilities is characteristic of the PUC, as evidenced by PUC-approved construction of the massive, unneeded, ugly PPL power line along the western ridge tops of Lackawanna County, to carry power to New Jersey… (more)
