Steve Costello Quotations

We expect to be able to get most of the customers back on tonight. We'll be handling stragglers into Monday.

Virtually every company we've called for help from outside Vermont has asked us to send crews their way. There are big problems throughout the Northeast and Quebec.

Transportation is a main focus to us. It really affects the region; everyone drives.

There are a lot of one- and two-customer problems and small groups of customers out, which means each repair brings back very few people. In some of the more rural areas, there are multiple sections of line down and a lot of broken poles.

We likely will be working overnight Sunday into Monday for single customers.

We think this is a very good settlement for our customers and the company and averts what could have been lengthy and expensive litigation.

We've been talking with them for months. They are an island in the middle of our service territory. We serve all the towns adjacent to Rochester.

Five years ago we were being vilified for Hydro-Quebec. Today we're being praised up and down. Things can change very quickly in this industry.

Five years ago, it would have been a completely different story. We would have been the ones with the higher rates.

This can be used for new traffic lights or sidewalks or a whole variety of things.

In the southern four counties, we have a lot of work ahead of us.