Public Power: The Fight for Publicly Owned Electricity by Howard Hampton; Bill RenoISBN: 9781894663441
Publication Date: 2003-04-25
Taking us from the very beginnings of the electricity industry in the 1880s right up to the present day, Howard Hampton vividly recounts the dramatic political struggles between public and private power in both Canada and the United States. Hampton goes on to lucidly dissect the flawed logic behind electricity deregulation and privatisation and chronicles, in devastating detail, the total failure of utility 'reform' experiments in California, Ontario, Alberta, Montana, Pennsylvania, and even Great Britain.