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On Halloween, did SCANA just trick us - again?

Jimmy Addison, left, will be the new SCANA CEO following the retirement of Generation and Transmission President Stephen Byrne and CEO Kevin Marsh
Jimmy Addison, left, will be the new SCANA CEO following the retirement of Generation and Transmission President Stephen Byrne and CEO Kevin Marsh tdominick@thestate.com

Wow, SCANA retires two of its top executives, and now everything is better. Right? No.

The company promoted another “Stepford” manager, one who spent his entire career in the same environment as previous CEO’s. How can consumers expect change under a key player in the fiasco at the V.C. Summer nuclear facility, who was part of the plan to put stockholders and executive bonuses ahead of the ratepayers?

Do we believe he was somehow not involved? Did he not tell Wall Street analysts that the project was doing well while staring at the report that was so critical of the project?

Anyone who studies organizational dynamics will tell you that without new eyes and ideas, an organization stagnates. This one is way past that.

The people who now have electric rates that rival any other state will get no change. It will be business as usual. Leaders who care more about their own pockets than their customers.

It is almost fitting that they did this on Halloween. Once again we get tricked, and they get treated.

M. Dean Bain

Blythewood

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