New York, NY – The chief executive of Consolidated Edison, Kevin Burke, is drawing criticism from politicians and some observers for his decision not to attend yesterdays’s City Council hearing on the steam pipe explosion that killed a woman and injured dozens last month.
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“I think that as the head of the utility he should be there,” the chairman of the Consumer Affairs Committee, Council Member Leroy Comrie Jr., a Democrat of Queens, said. “He is doing customers a disservice by not coming to explain himself.”
Mr. Burke, 56, has become the focal point for critics of Consolidated Edison since he was appointed in 2005, a period that has seen several failures of infrastructure
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AT least he shows his real face, as if saying i dont give a sh** about our customers even when they die.