Rowland and Enron shared detailed plans http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10473437&BRD=985&PAG=461&de... A newly uncovered electronic-mail message sent by a top Enron Corp. lobbyist to the now-bankrupt company's chief executive officer, Kenneth Lay, contradicts Gov. John G. Rowland's claim that he never met or spoke with Lay about Enron's dealings with the state trash authority. Moreover, a memorandum attached to the e-mail shows that, contrary to the governor's repeated assertions, Rowland actually gave detailed instructions for an ambitious plan by Enron and the trash authority for an expensive fuel-cell project. The project was to have been built with as much as $206 million in public funds and operated by Enron, which would have collected fees for managing it. The Enron memo says the governor gave his approval for the fuel-cell project at least as early as October 2001 and made several key decisions about it, including whom in his administration would supervise it. According to the memo, the governor also insisted that Enron make the trash authority, the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, its partner. Lay's call to Rowland was helpful' Some good news, the company's senior vice president for government affairs, Steven J. Kean, wrote in his message to Lay almost exactly two years ago. Your call to Governor Rowland was helpful. We are not finished yet, but we are on our way.'' Kean's e-mail message, one of thousands of Enron's internal communications made public in a federal investigation of the manipulation of energy markets in California, was sent to Lay on Nov. 5, 2001. It refers to a conference call the e-mails say Kean and Lay had with Rowland on Oct. 12, 2001. Four days after the call to Rowland, Enron's corporate headquarters in Houston made a $60,000 contribution to the Republican Governors Association, of which Rowland had just become chairman. In his e-mail message, Kean was congratulating Lay after another Enron lobbyist, Steven Montovano, had reported to Kean that it appears Governor Rowland is going to move this ball forward as he promised to do.'' Montovano advised his boss that he had had several meetings'' with Rowland in the month since Lay spoke with the governor in a conference call with Kean, and the message from him