Mr. Buddy Eiland This is Me

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1. 1. www.jaxnews.com

   www.jaxnews.com/news/2007/jn-l - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/4/2007   Last Visited: 7/5/2007

   According to Buddy Eiland, Alabama Power's Public Information Representative for the Eastern division, which includes Calhoun County, the most important factor behind the annual trimming and cutting is safety.
   
   "A kid can climb that tree if it's under there that close, whether we trim that tree or not a kid can climb that tree and get up into the lines," said Eiland.
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   We're going through and we're trying to get 15 feet of clearance on either side of the conductors," said Eiland.

2. 2. www.annistonstar.com

   www.annistonstar.com/news/2004 - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/17/2004   Last Visited: 9/19/2004

   As of 9 p.m. Thursday, about 15,000 Alabama Power Co. customers in Calhoun County were without power, according to Alabama Power spokesman Buddy Eiland.
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   Power company workers likely wouldn't begin repairing damage until Friday, Eiland said, and restoring power to many customers, including those in east and northeast Alabama, could take up to a week.
   
   "I find that people do better if you give them more information. If we go ahead and tell them they're going to be three days to a week without power, they can deal with it," Eiland said early Thursday as he drove to the company's operations center a few blocks west of Noble Street. The storm had yet to hit in force, but the wiper blades on his Chevrolet Blazer already were flicking rain out of his field of view.
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   Power company workers likely wouldn't begin repairing damage until Friday, Eiland said, and restoring power to many customers could take up to a week.
   
   Although the worst of the storm had blown through just before dusk on Thursday, Eiland said it was dangerous for crews to begin repair work until daylight. Meanwhile, he urged the public to treat downed power lines with caution.
   
   "Stay away from them," Eiland said.
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   Those crews already were making their way toward Alabama early Thursday, Eiland said.

3. 3. The Anniston Star Online 10-08-2000, Water works plight with contaminated dirt serves as lesson to area companies

   www.annistonstar.com/news/news - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/8/2000   Last Visited: 6/20/2001

   Buddy Eiland , public information officer for Alabama Power Co. , said the company tests for PCBs only in areas that have had known problems in the past. Why would we assume that there would be PCBs ( so far from the creek ) ?.
   
   Nor would testing necessarily uncover the PCBs , according to Ganesh Kurse , a project manager with Bhate Engineering , a Birmingham-based environmental investigation and remediation firm. The pollution source , its depth and other factors might hide PCBs from random tests.
   
   But Miller had no time to dwell on a move he didn't make.