http://www.rockymountainnews.com/business/1205y2k1.shtml

Public Service Company of Colorado which services at least 70% of Colorado is not prepped as it needs to be, direct from Will James, a former exec. Looks like all the press releases were more smoke and mirrors than actual substance.

$^%*&$#% (swear word)

previously posted discussion:

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-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), December 06, 1999

Answers

OR,

Can you give the board link for here again of the conversation you refer to?

Thanks.

-- maid upname (noid@ihope.com), December 06, 1999.

Oops...here it is.

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001wTp

-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), December 06, 1999.

An important point to note about the artice are the numerous contradictions between Will James and the statements of Public Service Co. (courtesy of their attorneys, no doubt). Remember, this guy was a VP at this utility company up until some time this year and is a sitting co-chairman of the Colorado y2k taskforce.

1. James states PSC will not have enough people for a potential crisis due to downsizing. PSC says they will "have 300 extra people in the field that night". Interesting, huh?

2. James states they have not undergone an independent audit as per a report dated November 11, 99. PSC states that it *recently* hired an independent audit firm. 30 days, h*ll make it 60 days, to do an audit is laughable, but you note the article does NOT state than an audit is being done on the remediation, but on the PLANS. What value is that? Later in the article it is reiterated about an independent audit firm being hired after PSC was not audited by the DOE. It conveniently leaves out the part about the audit firm being hired less than 2 months prior to rollover and what the audit firm was really auditing.

3. James states that he quit in part because he did not feel the utility was doing enough to address y2k issues. (Probably didn't want the stench of deceipt and failure on his hands) The company doesn't agree (well of course they don't agree. **Duh**)

Lastly, James offered no less than 3 warnings in this one article. He can safely say "I tried to tell you" in the aftermath. Sounds like a guy with a conscience to me. There are far too few of them out there.

-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), December 07, 1999.