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Newspapers and
Interesting Dates
A little bit of everything
Service Foreman "A" Charlie Perry of Columbus |
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1886-10-12 Gas well
covered up |
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1887-11-05 Gas price
reduction |
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1887-05-08 Prospecting for natural gas
Part 2 |
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1887-06-23 Kokomo
opens gas well |
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1887-08-23 Gusher at
Noblesville |
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1887-10-01 Indiana
gas well map |
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1887-12-23
Natural Gas as a Illuminator |
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1888-08-20 Indianapolis' stand on natural gas |
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1923-07-29 A good gas well will pay better than an
oil well |
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1940-01-01 Central Indiana
Gas co., story of gas |
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1945-09-21 Gas and Electric separate
Part 2 |
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1945-10-20 William O'Laughlin named Columbus Commercial Manager |
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1947-09-05 Paul R. Vail
marries |
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1947-09-06
Indiana Gas & Water holds picnic at Archie Wilburs |
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1947-12-13
Ineligible gas users are cut off |
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1948-07-08 Columbus installs gas holder at 5th St.
(now Mill Race Park) |
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1948-08-09 Gas customers get $1 million refund |
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1948-09-22 Gas supply cuts will not affect Columbus |
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1948-12-20
Gas company has Christmas Party |
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1948-12-12
Engineer Guy Groves dies |
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1950-10-27 Three thousand Gas/Oil burners to be released |
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1950-10-28 Bryant furnaces and A/C made in Indianapolis |
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1950-10-28 Typist wanted at IG&W |
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1950-11-03 New
Hardwick gas range sells for $69.50 |
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1950-11-03
Gasoline selling for 22.9 cents per gallon |
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1950-19-05
Servel Gas Refrigerators |
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1951-04-11
Jonesville to get natural gas |
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1951-10-05 Gas company moves to 546 Washington St in Columbus |
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1952-01-01 Gas storage field to benefit Seymour
Part 2 |
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1952-01-01 Bob Ochs wins prize for his watercolor
(before working for IG&W) |
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1952-01-03 Ample supply of gas assured by Panhandle Eastern Pipeline |
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1952-01-03 Gas truck driven by serviceman Jerry Jackson in wreck |
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1952-01-04 CIG's Lee Ross Barber dies |
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1953-01-02 Delaware County once had 831 producing gas wells |
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1953-01-04 CIG's Miss Hurrie marries in Muncie |
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1953-01-04 SIGECO reports everything went up except for electricity |
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1954-01-01 Too much
natural gas available |
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1954-01-03 Extracting chemicals from natural gas |
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1954-01-03 History of Southern Indiana Gas & Electric |
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1954-01-03
Underground gas storage chart |
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1954-01-05 Ad for
home gas incinerator |
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1954-01-05 IG&W's Betty Ammerman weds in Columbus |
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1954-01-06 Texas Gas Pipeline ordered to justify accounts |
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1954-05-06 Bob Sterrett Frankfort manager moves to new house |
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1954-05-08 IG&W gives out refunds and decreases to 91,000 customers |
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1954-05-08 Frankfort's T. C. Woodruff becomes a policeman |
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1954-05-08 IURC demands IG&W refund $1Million to customers |
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1954-05-18 Seymour's Sonny Timbers in car wreck |
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1954-05-20 IG&W will not petition for higher rates |
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1954-05-25
Free recipes on Indianapolis's Channel 6 WFBM |
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1954-06-08 CIG employee Charles Hollowell dies in Muncie |
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1957-04-13 Mrs Indiana of 1958 represents IG&W |
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1957-04-15 IG&W
has higher earnings |
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1958-07-14 Young man needed at Columbus gas company
(Jim West hired) |
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1959-01-17 Columbus's
Carvin Bode in serious wreck |
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1959-01-19 Home explosion injuries Columbus IGC serviceman Jim Walsh |
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1959-01-20 Servicemen Jim Walsh condition unchanged |
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1959-01-23
Blast victims still unchanged |
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1959-02-07 Jim
Walsh is improved |
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1960 02-22 Chairman of the Board - Louis B. Scheisz dies |
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1960-05-03 Jack
Heiney becomes President |
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1960-08-09 New gas line to Greenwood, Whiteland and New Whiteland |
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1961-05-03 IG&W bowlers in
Indianapolis |
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1961-12-08 Pipeline
for Seymour |
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1962-08-14 Service
pins given at Columbus |
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1962-08-20
IG&W adds 486 houses |
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1965-07-09 Two new gas mains in Seymour |
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1966-03-28 Dick Lancaster wants to rent a house in Franklin |
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1966-03 Madison,
Hanover & Milton KY added to IG&C 3,500 customers |
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1966-06 Ellettsville
gets gas - Bloomington Division |
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1967-12-08 Gas
odorization case goes to court |
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1967-05-19
IG&W wants to sell water areas |
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1967-07-22 IG&W's sale of water properties is approved by IURC |
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1967-12 Newsletter name changes from Flame & Faucet to Gas
Hi-Lights |
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1968-05-25 Columbus's
Harry Romine retires |
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1968-06-11 IGC in
Columbus
Part 2 |
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1968-11-02 IGC gas
leak detectioon |
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1970-10-21 Julian Piercefield promoted to Indy GO |
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1971-06-12 Julian Piercefield goes to Right of Way Department |
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1971-09-25
Service pins given out |
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1976-07-02 Indiana Gas once was Columbus Light & Coke company |
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1977-07-15 Columbus'
Harry Romine, foreman, dies |
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1977-08-27 Michigan-Wisconsin gas line ruptures |
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1977-10-05 IGC makes changes a Seymour - Hutchinson & Christian |
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1979-09-04 Columbus' Bill O'Laughlin dies
Part 2 |
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1980-01-05
Hudgins retires and Zehr promoted |
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1980-01-14 Bedford's Harry Maddox and wife celebrate 40 years |
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1980-01-24 IGC
realigns executives |
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1980-06-03 Budget
billing ad |
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1980-05-15 Indianapolis's
Corrosion Engineer Bill Nentrup dies |
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1981-08-28 IGC customers could get refund of $7 million |
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1981-08-31 Bernard
Loonam dies |
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1981-11-01
Central Indiana's Gas Boom |
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1982-11-07 We'll Pay the Piper for heat this year |
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1985-08-07 Gas
leak near Jonesville |
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1986-03-05
Indiana Gas Reorganizes |
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1986-03-06 Indiana Gas becomes Indiana Energy |
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1988-02-02 IGC buys Westport Natural Gas Company |
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1989-01-26 IGC & Union negotiates company-wide contract |
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1989-12-02
IGC hires firm to probe rumors |
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1990-03-01 IGC eyes Franklin as Regional Office |
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1990-03-15
IGC to pare service offices to 6 |
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1990-10-12 Marc Carmichael and his Conflict of Interest with IGC |
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1990-12-09 Joseph R. Watkins- Evansville- dies |
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1991-03-19
Eddie Foddrill, Lafayette dies |
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1991-04-06
Paul Underhill dies |
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1991-06-29 Franklin Region service area and employees |
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1992-02-02 Ramon
L. Aynes dies - Lafayette |
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1992-07-25 Columbus'
Foreman Dave Sullivan dies |
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1993-08-10
Early gas pipelines near Muncie |
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1993-12-20 Man walks away from home gas blast |
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1995-01-08
IGC goes hi-tech with communications |
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1995-09-16 Half Century of Natural Gas in Indiana by Bill Beck |
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1996-03-12 Bill Beck's book about IGC & CIG |
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1997-09-30
Sixty Two employees let go. Most due to the "AH" - too
old, didn't play golf, hair wasn't slicked back, wasn't one of his younger friends, etc.
MORE TO COME (or go!) |
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1998-03-22 ProLiance's gas profits stir criticism |
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1999-06-14 IEI & Sigcorp announce $1.4 billion merger |
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1999-06-15 Merger gives utility more muscle to flex
Part 2 |
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2000-08-10
Heating bills to increase
Part 2 |
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2000-12-15 Agency says IGC should share cost of gas with customers |
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2000-12-31 Rate hike decision due this week |
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2001-01-05 State Commission tells IGC to lower its rates |
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2001-01-05
Regulators make IGC charge less |
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2001-02-01 High home heating bills make Hoosiers hot |
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2001-02-14
IGC says IURC was wrong |
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2001-03-15 Help with heating bills still available
Part 2 |
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2001-03-30 Vectren agrees to provide $5.25 million in benefits |
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2001-03-30 IGC customers get one time credit of $4 |
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2001-04-07 Pact may provide customers rebates |
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2001-04-09
Natural gas bills to remain high |
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2001-07-1 Lafayette trial over fatal gas blast ends today |
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2001-08-01 Gas Co fined $2.56 million in gas explosion at Lafayette
Part 2 |
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2001-12-13 Columbus'
Charles Perry, Service Forman A dies |
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2002-01-29 President & COO John F. Kavavagh dies |
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2002-06-28 Vectren's president Andrew Goebel to retire 2003 |
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2004-02-28
Columbus' Keith Thompson band plays
Part 2 |
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2004-10-08
Columbus' Superintendent Bill McClure dies |
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2006-04-22 Bedford's
Earl Coulter dies |
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2007-12-06 Vectren's infrastructure fees are to high |
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2009-01-08 Carl Chapman unveils new bucket trucks |
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2010-02-04 Ellerbrook
to retire
Part 2 |
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2010-02-04 Memory shaped Ellerbrook's leadership style |
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2010-04-18 Carl Chapman soon to be CEO of Vectren |
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2012-10-08 Tipton County to host story
of Indiana Natural Gas |
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2016-03-31 Court rules employees suit against Vectren can continue |
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2017-08-23
Vectren considers selling out |
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2018-03-04
What could sale of Vectren mean ?
Part
2 |
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2018-04-25 Vectren's partner has eyed several rate hikes |
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2018-12-07 Downsized Vectren employees eligible for 2 years of
salary |
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2018-12-07 CenterPoint moves
employees around |
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2019-02-02 Merger complete - now the layoffs begin
Part 2 |
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2019-02-06 Takeaways from Vectren-CenterPoint merger
Part 2 |
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2021-02-10 Employees help with Girl Scout cookie distribution
Part 2 |
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2021-03-16 Vectren's name changes to CenterPoint |
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2021-04-01 CenterPoint to pay $894,000 for safety violations |
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2021-04-09 State agency denies gas rate increase request |
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2021-04-19 Active Shooter training needed
Part 2 |
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2021-05-05 Vectren to
CenterPoint name change complete |
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2021-05-13 CenterPoint donates $1 million to build new park
Part 2
-- perhaps why my budget billing more
than doubled -- |
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2021-07-10 Joe
Rosebrock's wife dies |
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2021-07-20 Texas Gas to build 20 mile pipeline to CenterPoint
Part 2 |
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2021-01-26 Hearing set for gas rate increase
Part 2
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2022-01-18 CenterPoint wants to spend $900 million |
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2022-07-01 CenterPoint to build two new gas plants |
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12/29/2022
James D. West
imo.jimwest@gmail.com
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