Peoples Gas filed an emergency motion with the Illinois Commerce Commission on Friday urging regulators to allow them to continue work on a controversial pipeline replacement program next year, or else risk leaving some customers with meters “dangling” dangerously from their homes and hundreds of union workers out of jobs.
In a sweeping ruling last month, the Illinois Commerce Commission put a halt to the utility’s perennially delayed and over-budget pipe project, pending an investigation into what consumer watchdogs have long derided as a mismanaged waste of ratepayer dollars.
