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Originally Posted by pan6467
If LA is boycotting it's Az contracts, I would think that maybe one, can't pick and choose and AZ is calling the bluff.
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LA is not boycotting any existing contract with AZ. The city is simply prohibiting any new travel or official business with AZ by city officials.
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Originally Posted by rahl
It just seems more like political posturing to me, rather than an actual threat.
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Agreed. An empty threat....as opposes to the boycott, which might be political but has the force of action behind it.
I would assume that AZ and LA have a binding intergovernmental agreement to provide electric power.
And,the fact that Southern California Edison, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and other California utilities have an ownership stake in major power plants in Arizona.
And finally, the dude making the "threat" is running for reelection to the AZ Utility Commission.
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An Arizona electric-utility regulator is drawing national attention for threatening to black out Los Angeles because of that city's boycott over Arizona's immigration law, but actually cutting the juice is not in his power....
...But Southern California Edison, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and other California utilities have an ownership stake in major power plants in Arizona, including the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station.
The California utilities paid part of the cost of building Palo Verde, and pay their share of the fuel and operations, so Arizona can't take away the power they get from the plant. And the Corporation Commission has no jurisdiction over merchant power plants that sell power from Arizona to California.
Arizona electricity regulator threatens power supply to Los Angeles
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