HEARINGS
"Lessons from Enron: An Oversight Hearing on Gas Prices and Energy Trading"
Monday, May 8, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
138 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Hearing Transcript
For a full transcript of the hearing click here.
Click here for a recording of the hearing. (mp3 format)
Opening Statements
Senator Byron L. Dorgan
Chairman, Democratic Policy Committee
Senator Harry Reid
Senate Democratic Leader
Senator Carl Levin
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Maria Cantwell
Senator Frank Lautenberg
Witnesses
Lisa Madigan
Illinois Attorney General
Robert McCullough
McCullough Research
Eric Christensen
Snohomish County Public Utility District
Erik Saltmarsh
California Electricity Oversight Board
Michael Greenberger
University of Maryland
Don Olsen
Huntsman International
Sean Cota
Cota & Cota
Additional Materials
The 2000-1 Western Power Crisis: Consumer Exploitation and Regulatory Indifference presented by Eric Christensen
Regulation and Forward Markets: Lessons from Enron and the Western Market Crisis of 2000-2001 by Robert McCullough
The Role of Supply, Demand and Financial Commodity Markets in the Natural Gas Price Spiral by Mark N. Cooper, Ph.D.
Letter to the Senate from the New England Fuel Institute, May 3, 2006