NEW ORLEANS - Utilities Committee Chair Helena Moreno, Council Sewerage and Water Board (S&WB) Appointee Jay H. Banks, and Public Works Committee Chair Joe Giarrusso have issued the following statement regarding Entergy and the New Orleans Power Station (NOPS):

"Since taking office last May, this Council has relentlessly fought on behalf of Entergy New Orleans and Sewerage Water Board (S&WB) customers. We continue to review all aspects of service and business practices by S&WB and Entergy to determine how they can better serve New Orleanians.

NEW ORLEANS - Today, the New Orleans City Council held a special meeting to hear from the independent investigators into the Entergy New Orleans (ENO) paid actors scandal, consider sanctions for the same, and initiate a prudence investigation of ENO's past operation of the city's electricity distribution system.

NEW ORLEANS - Tonight, the Council Utilities Regulatory Office (CURO) signaled it had received the final report from the Independent Investigators engaged by the Council to investigate the tactics used by Entergy during the New Orleans Power Station (NOPS) public comment period last spring.

NEW ORLEANS - Today, the New Orleans City Council Utilities Committee (UCTTC) formally received Entergy New Orleans' (ENO) application for a change in electric and gas rates (the "rate case") and set up the nearly year-long procedural schedule necessary to ensure adequate study and comment from the public.

NEW ORLEANS - Utility Committee Chair and Council Vice-President Helena Moreno announced today that the professional services agreement between the Council, Sher, Garner, Cahill, Richter, & Klein, LLC (Sher Garner) and Judge Calvin Johnson (Judge Johnson) was signed today formally initiating the independent investigation into allegations with Entergy New Orleans (ENO).