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Amy Klobuchar: “The fact that 95.1 percent of utility companies had experienced copper theft in the past year; that 86.6 percent of…”

On the recordJuly 21, 2009
The fact that 95.1 percent of utility companies had experienced copper theft in the past year; that 86.6 percent of utility companies had a process in place to track incidents of copper theft; and yet there were more than 50,000 incidences, that we know of, of copper theft in the last year.
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

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Klobuchar highlights alarming statistics on copper theft affecting utility companies.

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