Power Merger Critics Push For House Debate

This could be the climactic week in an effort by some Vermont lawmakers to get the Legislature to intervene in the proposed merger of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities.

Lawmakers Take Sharper Aim At Utility Merger Review

The saying ‘politics makes strange bedfellows’ is being proved true in the growing legislative debate over the merger between Central Vermont Public Service Corporation and Green Mountain Power. Progressives, Republicans, Independents and Democrats are all plotting strategy together.

Senators Complain That GMP-CVPS Merger Could Cost Jobs

Lawmakers this week are taking a closer look at the proposed merger of Central Vermont Public Service and Green Mountain Power. And a group of state senators worries that most of the savings from the merger would come from eliminating jobs just as the state tries to recover from the recession.