Briggs: Citizens Energy’s callous water shutoff threat turns renters into human shields

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So, is Citizens' threat necessary? The utility can’t seem to provide any proof to back up that word.

I don’t understand the story I’m about to tell. Maybe the company is right, I can be kind of dim sometimes, who knows.

But Citizens has agency. Citizens is using tenants as human shields in a conflict that is really about extracting money from a property owner or anyone else who might have motivation to pay . That is a discretionary choice. Citizens’ water segment earned $50.6 million in net income last year. To be clear, any segment profit is meant to be reinvested because, as Considine repeatedly pointed out to me, Citizens is a nonprofit.

What’s more, Citizens is operating as though none of its executives view this as anything other than a routine business decision. That thoughtlessness is not new. When I sought during an April press conference to gain a better understanding of Citizens’ decision-making process, CEO Jeffrey Harrison seemed to have no clear threshold for what might lead a disconnect.

"We’re going to keep working with the city of Indianapolis, with the attorney general's office, but we at this point made the difficult but necessary decision to hang those door tags,” Considine said. “The goal here is to try to get some action from JPC Affordable Housing."

 

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What’s their prerogative? Who’s gonna help them get paid? Certainly not the city government.

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