It looks like we found a group of folks who need to visit Greg with The Oklahoma Alpha Mens Clinic!
Last week, former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony – the ole curmudgeon whose life mission is apparently to expose the Oklahoma Corporation Commission for ignoring their duty to protect Oklahoma consumers from greedy corporations and utilities and, instead, do the bidding of those very same greedy corporations and utilities – fired off another angry response to the Commission.
This time around, he called out his cohorts for pretending they're powerless to stop utilities from continuing to price gouge Oklahomans over the infamous 2021 ice storm.
He even went so far as to call the commission “impotent.”
Check this out:
In response to an attempt to sneak through approval of some $3 billion of ONG and PSO’s 2021 fuel costs by burying the items as attachments on the OCC’s generalized “24-hour Signing Agenda” for Tuesday, April 4, Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony has issued two deliberations statements:
https://public.occ.ok.gov/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=13547340
https://public.occ.ok.gov/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=13546644The first lists numerous reasons why approving the proposed orders declaring ONG and PSO’s 2021 fuel costs (including Winter Storm costs) “prudent” would not only be premature at this point in time, but be would also be “improper, irresponsible, negligent and a slap in the face to the hardworking ratepayers of Oklahoma.”
Anthony makes the second filing in response to repeated “declarations of impotence” by his fellow Commissioners who claim they do not have the power or authority to investigate possible wrongdoing like fraud and market manipulation that may have impacted the utilities’ 2021 fuel costs. It details numerous places in the Oklahoma Constitution and Oklahoma Statutes that Anthony says do indeed give the Corporation Commission the power to investigate and take action against companies for such offenses.