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Virginia Electric Cooperative's Head Says Deregulation May Put Many at Risk.(Originated from Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 1997 by Edwards, Greg

Oct. 15--Residential customers, small businesses and poor people could be left behind in the race to bring competition and other changes to the electric power industry, the general manager of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association of Arlington warned Virginia farm leaders yesterday.

Congress, which spent 10 years of study before passing a 1996 law to bring change and competition to the communications industry, should be equally careful before it changes the way the power industry is regulated, said the NRECA's Glenn English.

"We don't want any quickie piece of legislation that's designed to grab some headlines but leave a lot of people at risk," English said. He spoke in Richmond at a breakfast meeting of the Friends of the...

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