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FYI. Assistance from the State Department. -----Original Message----- From: Optican, Mitchell E. [mailto:OpticanM@state.gov] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:15 AM To: Dadson, Aleck; Huddle, Franklin, P Cc: White, Colin, J Subject: RE: Ontario Electricity Aleck, You are exactly right -- disappointed but not at all surprised by the OEB's extension. You should know that I wrote very detailed briefing papers for Ambassador Cellucci's initial visit to Toronto last June 27-28 on the power sector opening issue. I saw the briefing book upon his arrival for the visit and the Ambassador had heavily underlined it. I also spoke with him about the issue at length during our drive down to Buffalo. In other words, the Ambassador is thoroughly briefed on the matter. I also took the opportunity at the evening reception following the Board of Trade breakfast on June 28 (your Garrett Tripp was at the breakfast) to speak with Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge about his providing moral support to Premier Harris on moving ahead with the market opening. Ridge spoke to the Board of Trade about his state's positive market opening experience. Governor Ridge said he would make the point to Premier Harris at the earliest opportunity. Another interesting development was that the PAC's Commissioner during the successful Pennsylvania opening -- a Mr. Quain, is now in private consulting practice. It would seem reasonable for the OEB to spend some money to hire Mr. Quain to review their progress so far and perhaps make some helpful suggestions. Unfortunately, the Premier was not available for a meeting with the Ambassador (Walkerton testimony was a day away) during that June visit. I hope that we can get this on a Premier/Ambassador meeting agenda at the first opportunity. By the way, I think the letter is excellently written, concise, and clearly to the point. Best, Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Dadson, Aleck [mailto:Aleck.Dadson@ENRON.com] Sent: July 31, 2001 10:01 AM To: Mitchell Optican (E-mail) Subject: Ontario Electricity Mitch, I am sure we are all disappointed, but not surprised, by the OEB's 4 month extension of the deadline for the filing by distributors of their second self-certification report. I thought that you would be interested in the comments that we filed with the OEB regarding the proposed extension. That extension will effectively kill any possibility of a market opening this year. If you have any questions or comments, please give me a call. <<Comments of Enron Corp-Jul 25.doc<< Aleck Dadson Senior Director, Government Affairs Enron Canada Corp. 1100 - 70 York Street Toronto, ON M5J 1S9 Tel: 416 865 3707 Fax: 416 865 3766 Email: Aleck.Dadson@enron.com ********************************************************************** This e-mail is the property of Enron Corp. and/or its relevant affiliate and may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient (s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender or reply to Enron Corp. at enron.messaging.administration@enron.com and delete all copies of the message. This e-mail (and any attachments hereto) are not intended to be an offer (or an acceptance) and do not create or evidence a binding and enforceable contract between Enron Corp. (or any of its affiliates) and the intended recipient or any other party, and may not be relied on by anyone as the basis of a contract by estoppel or otherwise. Thank you. **********************************************************************
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