GROUP ACCUSES TXU, RELIANT OF PRICE GOUGING Houston Business Journal 11/01/06 TXU Corp and Reliant Energy Inc customers in North Texas would have paid $700 million less during the past 10 months for electricity if the companies’ rates would have been lowered to reflect the drop in natural gas prices, according to a report by a consumer advocacy group. STUDY…
COMMISSION IDENTIFIES TXU AS ‘COMPANY C’ Galveston County Daily News 10/21/06 The state’s largest power company is suspected of manipulating the electricity market. TXU BEING PROBED FOR POSSIBLE MANIPULATION US HALTS ENERGY-LEASE SALES OFF LOUISIANA COAST Houston Chronicle 10/24/06 BATON ROUGE, La. – The federal government has agreed to halt oil and natural gas lease sales off the Louisiana coast…
CITY SMOKING BAN EXTENDED TO BARS Houston Chronicle 10/19/06 The City Council voted Wednesday to extend Houston’s indoor smoking ban to bars, with several members acknowledging they went along reluctantly to forge a compromise on an issue that had divided the panel. STORMS SPARE HOUSTON BUT CAUSE FLOODS ELSEWHERE Houston Chronicle 10/19/06 A cold front zipped through Houston this morning,…