Energy Group Cleared of Alleged Violations

The RI Attorney General's Office ruled last week that the East Bay Energy Consortium did not violate the state's open meetings and public records laws.

  The East Bay Energy Consortium has been cleared of public records and open meetings laws violations. The RI Attorney General made its ruling last Friday on a complaint lodged by a Tiverton man, Gerald Felise, who is the CEO of eCo Industrial Park and Natural Energy Generators, according to a story posted on eastbayri.com. The ruling said that EBEC, a consortium of nine RI towns at the time of the complaint – East Providence, Barrington, Warren, Bristol, Little Compton, Portsmouth, Tiverton, Middletown, and Newport, did not break the law when it failed to provide him in a timely manner with the minutes of dozens of meetings between 2009 and 2012.  In the opinion published a week ago, RI Special Assistant Attorney General Maria R. Corvese …