CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF BOULDER, COLORADO
4/17/2017
council@bouldercolorado.gov
1101 Arapahoe Ave.
Boulder, CO 80302
SUBJECT: BOULDER’S ENERGY FUTURE WRT; XCEL ENERGY’S SETTLEMENT
PROPOSALS
Dear City Council, City of Boulder, Colorado:
The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) (Colorado Department of
Regulatory Agencies), has a duty under the Colorado Constitution to find a
practical, doable path to municipalization. Because that is what the citizens
of Boulder County and of Colorado are seeking, and we have a Constitutional
right to municipalize.
Municipalization: is the transfer of corporations or other assets to
municipal ownership. The transfer may be from private ownership (usually by
purchase) or from other levels of government. It is the opposite of privatization
and is different from nationalization.
Xcel Energy is a private entity and does not have any duty of any kind
to encourage or assist a city, county, state to become a municipal utility.
This being said, the City of Boulder must block Xcel Energy’s privatization of
its utility. Xcel Energy has opposed and withheld, and willfully failed to
cooperate.
The reason it has taken six years to get to this trial that is about to
start is exclusively what appears to be, Xcel Energy’s deliberate
obstructionism. Thus, the very reason it is essential that the City and County
of Boulder move forward with this scheduled trial, because whatever obstacles
the PUC may try to put into our path,
they are subject to scrutiny both by the legislature and the courts.
Shane Davis
"Perfection is Energy Democracy, and We are the Energy of Change that Can Make it Happen."
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