Two Men Who Saw the Storm Coming and Sold Their Electric Companies Before Disaster Hit
Ambit s Jere Thompson and Stream s Rob Snyder determined the system was set up to fail.
By Matt Goodman
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February 26, 2021
10:41 am
State lawmakers in Austin spent all of Thursday grilling the people responsible for keeping the power on in Texas. They want to know where and how the system broke down last week. But it really isn’t all that hard to figure out. Two former CEOs in Dallas saw this coming years ago, which is why they sold their companies. They’d separately come to the same conclusion: if something like last week occurred, it would put them out of business. One of those CEOs believed a disaster was likely, if not imminent.
Change of command for top coastal advocacy group
The Island Institute in Rockland has been a voice for coastal towns and islands for nearly 40 years. Author: Don Carrigan Updated: 7:42 PM EST February 19, 2021
ROCKLAND, Maine 18 years ago, Rob Snyder began work with the Island Institute, helping the group become a leader in the statewide effort to protect working waterfront.
Since then, Maine voters have supported millions of dollars for working waterfront, but the issue remains a focus for the Institute, one of many it has embraced over the years to help sustain island and coastal communities.
“And when you dig into what that means,” Snyder said,” we support the leadership on this coast, helping make sure they’re informed, networked, and supported so they can solve real-world problems they face in a practical way. And that can take the form of project work like renewable energy and broadband networks, working waterfront in communitie
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