Bernero seeks help from state Public Service Commission on outside review of ice storm restoration
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City Pulse Staff
Wednesday, Jan. 8 — Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero today asked the Michigan Public Service Commission for help in conducting an “independent review” of the Board of Water and Light’s handling of last month’s ice storm after the utility has done its own.
Bernero said Brigadier Gen. Michael C.H. McDaniel is leading a “community review team … to conduct a separate review of the LBWL response to the ice storm.”
In a letter to MPSC Chairman John Quackenbush, Bernero asked for the commission’s help in essentially reviewing those two reviews — BWL’s and the community’s — once they’re completed.
“While I am aware that the MPSC does not have formal regulatory authority over the BWL, you and your staff’s deep expertise in utility matters makes you uniquely qualified to conduct such a review of the BWL and community reviews,” Bernero wrote.
Outside of those, “any additional information required by the MPSC for the purposes of such a review, now or in the future, will receive the full attention and cooperation of the BWL and the City of Lansing,” he said.
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