A reminder of the scum that was Enron!
Below is my transcription of part of one taped conversation beween traders on Enron’s West Coast Trading desk before Enron collapsed. See below to hear audios and see transcripts of other taped conversations. Thanks to the Snohomish PUD in Washington State for fighting to make these recordings public.
Excerpt from Stupid Enron West Coast Trader Desk Conversation:
I know, me too Sonny, you know see, you should be the Senator or some kind of Congressman there in California because it, it, you know what I hate, Sonny
I hate when people are talking stupid. Ha ha
I do too, heh, heh
What we, because you know the more water…. I don’t think they have much water left, Bonneville doesn’t.
Oh really?
It’s getting hot up here. The thing that saved us is it’s never been hot up here.
Uh, Huh.
It’s fucking 90 degrees up here.
Oh!
So they‘ve got to keep all their power here. Nothing forced them to keep their power here so they said oh, California here you come and –it’s beautiful.
Oh, man.
And so my thing is, is you know these guys are just fucking loving it because they’re just getting paid 250 but we’re like, you’re killing the fish, you know, by sending all this water down there. We’re trying to get the fish agencies to rally around us – to keep the water up here.
Oh, oh you’re literally killing the fish?
Yeah man, you’re taking the water out of the river man, and not covering the eggs. Now, you know, the fish are dying cause, you know
The salmon you mean or what?
The salmon. Yeah. You push that button up here…
Oh yeah you got to go with the tree hugger button …
Yeah, exactly our motto is Do you save the Californians or do you kill… kill the fish for the Californians? That is basically the motto.
Oh yeah, you want to ….you kill the Californians huh?
That’s what I’m pushing for…
Heh, heh
I won’t … you know. Our motto up here is we want the dogs to die.
That’s mean, isn’t it?
No that’s true. But that’s a big conflict is, you know, they think short term to keep the lights on in California. We’ll do anything to keep the lights on in California. We like, even kill the fish? Then the fish people, oh yeah, that’s right. So then we rally around that.
So is that going to work?
Aah trying to …
We’ll find out next week, huh?
Yeah. So this is kind of look … That’s my life man.
Yeah, that sounds exciting.
The above is part of just one taped conversation between traders on Enron’s West Coast Trading desk before Enron collapsed. Some other conversations have gotten a lot of play but I thought this one was of local interest to Washington ratepayers. In total some 24,000 hours of tapes exist. The Snohomish PUD sued to make the tapes available. They are still not all available, and Enron and FERC have opposed making more available.
Senator Maria Cantwell handed out a CD that included this conversation at her press conference last month where she challenged Enron’s paltry compensation proposal on electricity contracts that Enron overcharged the Snohomish Public Utility District. She also argued that all the Enron se tapes need to be made public, not suppressed and hidden away.
Thanks to the Seattle Times you can hear the rest of the above conversation at
http:
//seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001945474_
webenronaudio02.html
There are a number of other audios and transcripts. This one is part of the one that starts “The big conflict is …” near the bottom of the page.
You can also read the posted Seattle Times transcript of this conversation at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/links/enron-240.pdf
