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About PFP

In July 2006, power was out for
days in Sunnyside, Woodside,
Astoria and Long Island City.

This meant no AC, no elevators, no refrigerators, no subway service, no wages for workers in closed businesses, no rest for weary utility workers, and worst of all:

No answers from
Con Ed management!

No sign of the Mayor until
the community demanded
he come!

Power for the People launched a petition drive to say:

Enough is enough!

And to tell Con Ed and the City to:

• Pay us back for losses, expenses and lost wages!
  
  
• Tell us why this happened
  and will it happen again?

As part of our petition campaign we demanded:

1. Compensation for losses, expenses and lost wages from the outage (over and above Con Ed’s claim form for spoiled food)
   
   
2. Free power for the length of time the outage lasted and no charge for “brownout" power.
   
   
3. A Peoples’ Fact-finding Investigation into the power outage – its causes, its impact on our communities and plans to prevent future outages.
   
   
4. A first alert to the community as soon as power problems occur.
   
   
5. A community civilian review board of Con Ed emergency response.

Power for the People is also seeking an economic and public health impact study, done by a third party and paid for by Con Ed, to accurately quantify the damages and losses from the July 2006 Queens Power Outage.