Who is Dominion?

• The company bought the over 40-year-old Brayton Point and Salem power plants from Pacific Gas & Electric as a package deal in 2005. The Brayton Point plant is a major profit source for the company.
  
• Dominion owns more than 28,000 MW of electricity capacity in the United States, about 2,300 of which come from the two Massachusetts coal plants.

• Dominon successfully lobbied for the weakening of pollution standards for the six oldest and dirtiest power plants in the state, including two of its own.
• Dominion is currently working to secure windfall profits for themselves by manipulating the implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which Massachusetts joined in January of 2007.
• Dominion continues to apply significant pressure to the City of Salem in attempts to improve its sweetheart tax deal and reduce payments to the city.

• Corporate profits:

- 2005: $1.0 billion (Dominion 2006 Annual Report http://www.dom.com/investors/annual.jsp )
- 2006: $1.4 billion (Dominion 2006 Annual Report http://www.dom.com/investors/annual.jsp )
- 2007: $2.1 billion (projected)
- 2008: $3.0 billion (projected)