PSE merger opponents speak out
July 19, 2008 - 07:45 PM
by Aaron Burkhalter
by Aaron Burkhalter
Ginny Wolff, left, of Bow and of Diane Freethy of Sedro-Woolley are worried about a foriegn company taking over Puget Sound Energy.
But now the staunch opponent of the proposed merger between Puget Sound Energy and an Australia-based investor group finds herself uncomfortably in the spotlight.
“I’ll tell you, really all my life I’ve been a pretty private person,” she said. “I do not like being in the spotlight.”
But as Bellevue-based PSE discusses a $7.4 billion merger with the Macquarie Consortium, an Australia-based investors’ group, and the Skagit Public Utility District discusses taking over local electric infrastructure to avoid the corporate merger, Freethy finds it difficult to remain behind the scenes.
* See the full story in Sunday's Skagit Valley Herald.
