Commissioner moran mentioned. The other thing that bag says is they need togiven cra is projected to continue to grow that the investor in the utilities need to be cautious in their acquiring of assets that they know in likelihood might become stranded. Yes. Along those lines pacific gas and leckric when they applied to retire deoblow canyon rsh they think it is wise to retire is because the expansion of Community Choice aggregation and wont need the output of that plant to serve bundled utility cusmers. Thank you. I have one other item that is the rates item to address if i may. Please. So, i have been filling you in that pg e was making filings at the california pu c to modify their rates. When i last mentioned this at our december 10th update where we talked about projections of what those rate changes would be. Pg e said they would increase rates. You may have seen in the news they did on january 1, so pg e increased the rates and expect the impact to the hetch hetchy customers to
Region. We can be a partner to anybody who wants us to partner with them in the fight against sectarianism and others. We are there, and we will still be there. Iran will always be our neighbor. Bear that in mind in any evaluation you have. The region itself is going through tremendous social, political upheaval. The arab spring has been hijacked. No clear mandate to the governments in the region governing pre as in comparison to prearab spring. So please bear that in mind. So in that sense, i would say that in iraq you have a reliable partner, but at the same time, help us to help you in the fight against international terrorism. Somebody asked us the other day, a question a senior official said to me he said lukman lets say we get rid of isis will you be a partner with us against isis elsewhere or are you content with just iraq . My response is no. We know we will have a responsibility that we will take seriously, but we have an urgency now which we want you to help us with, and let
Agencies in america that are also engaged directly or indirectly in the administration of our tax code as well. Please join me in thanking senator lee and senator rubio. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. Next week the United States will begin chairing the Arctic Council, a group that sets policy for the arctic, regarding drilling and other issues. Eight countries are members of the Arctic Council, the u. S. , canada, denmark, finland iceland, norway, russia, and sweden. And this morning at the center for strategic and International Studies the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, police leesiae ia Lisa Murkowski of alaska, is speaking. Some of the issues also facing the arctic such as Climate Change, pollution and the health of the Indigenous People who live in the arctic the discussion expected to last several hours should get under way shortly. This meeting happening, this International Meeting happening as a number of other International Ministers and lead