Hearing on CRC documents delayed

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Friday, March 12, 2004 | 11:17 a.m.

A Clark County District Court hearing into Nevada Power Co.'s demand that confidential Colorado River Commission documents be made public has been delayed.

Originally scheduled for Thursday morning, the hearing is now set for March 18.

Nevada Power has asked the court to make public thousands of transaction records and audio recordings detailing the commission's dealings with bankrupt Enron Corp. during the Western energy crisis.

Attorneys for Nevada Power have reviewed the documents as an intervenor in a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hearing into the energy crisis.

"We intervened to do our due diligence," Jack Leone, a Nevada Power spokesman, said. "We wanted to determine what extent, if any, harm was done to the company or the ratepayers of Nevada."

The utility's court filings have indicated evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the commission, whose executives have denied any such claims.