people at Enron sometimes talked like Barnacle Bill the Sailor
The recording, obtained from the US Justice Department, are of Enron employees apparently scheming to shut down power plants as California's electricity prices went sky-high.
"If you took down the steamer, how long would it take to get it back up?" Enron worker said on the recording played by CBS.
"Oh, it' s not something you want to just be turning on and off every hour. Let's put it that way," another says.
"Well, why don't you just go ahead and shut her down?"
CBS said a public utility in Snohomish, Washington, near Seattle had obtained the tapes from the Justice Department.
"This is the evidence we've all been waiting for. This proves they manipulated the market," a utility spokesman told CBS.
The utility is one of thousands of people and businesses who would like to get their money back.
"This is the evidence we've all been waiting for. This proves they manipulated the market"
"They're [expletive] taking all the money back from you guys? All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?" asks an Enron trader on the tapes.
"Yeah, grandma Millie, man," said another. "Yeah, now she wants her [expletive] money back for all the power you've charged ... for [expletive] 250 dollars a megawatt-hour."
Aljazeera Jun.03.04
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Accenture, which is, after a name-change, the consulting firm Arthur Andersen, which is an Enron co-conspirator, is now in charge of all data related to anyone officially entering and leaving the US. These don't seem immediately related, but they are. Accenture is running BC Hydro, which is the formerly publicly-owned utility of British Columbia.
