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To: civicprep
Subject: [civicprep] Nationwide Utilities Event Action Alert
Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 1:36 PM

Next week there will be a debate and discussion of national importance in Boston regarding Utilities and the Year 2000. Please send a request to C-Span ASAP to request that they give this two hour meeting nationwide coverage.

events@C-span.org

It is VITAL for the public to hear this first of it's kind debate (see panelists below)

If you have a mailing list please send it to them and ask them to zip an email to C-Span so the whole country can hear. (I mean what good will it do only us here in Massachusetts if Gary North can't hear what's said and tell all the next day why we're so silly to be optimistic! ) All you need is one or two sentences, based on the press release below.

Press Release:

"The Y2K Computer Problem and Public Utilities--A Rare Discussion with the Experts"

Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Cove Auditorium
Eastern Nazarene College
23 East Elm Avenue
Quincy, MA
7 - 9 PM

The third in a series of panel discussions on Y2K-related issues between now and the year 2000. Offered by The Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University (www.mille.org) and Eastern Nazarene College.

The experts offer widely varying views of how ready our public utilities will be to handle Y2K. How reliable are their predictions and on what do they base them? Are they even looking at the same data? A panel of front-line industry Y2K technicians and independent Year 2000 analysts will discuss and debate your questions on the readiness of New England and of the Nation for Y2K.

The event is free and open to the public and is wheelchair accessible.

The Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University is a non-profit organization studying and archiving the many issues surrounding the approach and passage of millennial dates, including the years 2000-2001.

For more information, please call Eastern Nazarene College at 617/745-3715 or visit The CMS's web site at www.mille.org

Panelists:

7 Phil Prugnarola, Manager of Information Resources and Y2K remediation coordinator at Seabrook Nuclear Station who will address their state of readiness and potential problems
7 Jim Sinclair, Manager of Governmental Relations and Public Informationand member of the Y2K team at ISO New England-the people who run and manage the power "grid" for the New England region
7 Rick Cowles, national Y2K utilities expert, author and "critic" of the power industry's Y2K readiness
7 Lou Marcoccio, the leading Y2K coordinator for the Gartner Group
7 Steve Bray CEO of Power Plus (Orange County, California) a national Temporary Power expert will address inventory and safety concerns for those using back-up power supplies.

Panelists will be available for individual or group interviews immediately following this event, in the Cove auditorium media room.

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~C~

-- Anonymous, April 15, 1999

Answers

there is no point us hearing what is said, because 99% of the people that read this forum wont believe anything positive said by the poeple on the panel and will continue with their negative beliefs no what they are told. any more on the florida explosion? or do you not what to talk about it now that you know it had nothing to do with Y2k, I guess it probably was a y2k problem but it is another cover up!! Graham

-- Anonymous, April 15, 1999

This should be an interesting panel, and a lively discussion to boot. The eclectic nature of this electric panel virtually assures a high level of interest and discussion. Will we be any closer to an absolute answer when it's over? Unlikely, but it should be fun, anyway.

As Graham notes, I doubt that the end result will change anyone's mind.

-- Anonymous, April 16, 1999