New boss for Power Authority
 The state Power Authority today elected Richard Kessel, famous for his opposition to opening a nuclear-power plant on Long Island, as its new president and CEO.
Kessel, 57, is the former CEO of the troubled Long Island Power Authority and the head of the state Consumer Protection Board. He led the fight in 1992 that led to the dismantling of the $5.5 billion Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant in Suffolk County because of safety concerns.
The Power Authority is the country’s largest state-owned power organization as well as the site of numerous highly paid jobs for people with political connections during the Pataki administration. It operates 18 generating facilities and 1,400 miles of transmission lines.
Kessel’s salary hasn’t been officially set yet, but it’s expected to be $240,000
His predecessor, Roger Kelley, who was forced out by Gov. Paterson in July, made $246,750 a year.
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I wonder why in new york we elect people that are oppossed
to utilizing energy like nuclear, and offshore oil…
the state power authority is supposed to make power
cheap and available…Mr Kessel who originally made
his bones as a gadfly consumer advocate from LONG
ISLAND …is not the exactly the man to head the
largest state owned power organziation in the nation
Pattersons recent appointment of his long time dem
buddy in the legislature to a job that did not before
exist..suggests to me that our attorney general will
be up for a primary come election time…
Right. Put a vegetarian in charge of the steakhouse. Why not Ralph Nader? He’d put an end to any power whatsoever. Anybody got any extra candles I can borrow?
Ya think? what the hell happened to democrats who give a
damn about how much it costs to heat a home in the winter
or how much businesses have to pay in electricity which
of course they pass a long in higher prices…( have
you gone grocery shopping lately, I do everyday…because
I cook for the family (bet you never thought that would happen)....someone has got to reign in the madness…before
new york taxpayers get totally disgusted and leave…
new jersey has lower fuel price, connecticut has much
lower property taxes…and the south..well…no municipal
bills for salt and sand in the hundreds of thousands
of dollars…
but Kessel has been nothing but a pain in the ass since
he headed up his consumers group in the 80’s cuomo
bought him off.and patterson continues…
as far as I’m concerned I would rather see a billionaire
governor like mike bloomberg who doesn’t owe anyone
anything..who maybe just maybe could right the ship