RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbcnb_mirror/116240918136048249

I'm one of those pesky holdouts. Do I want the absolute clowns at the head of NB Power having real-time access to my energy consumption? Absothefucklutely not!

Every "development" from nbp over the last decade has turned out to be a grift. They have wasted tens - maybe hundreds of millions of grifts, many millions more on funding dictators, and BILLIONS sunk into our #nuclear plant because they wouldn't listen to the experts about maintenance.

Take for instance Joi Scientific - the "perpetual energy" company nbp partnered with in order to buy yachts for conmen. Or how about the not one but TWO companies they spun up to "build" #smr (small modular nuclear reactors).

Buffoons!

There was of course the deal with the dictators of Venezuela to run our #HeavyFuelOil power plant on some proprietary product on a 25 year agreement, rather than invest in renewables.

nbp doesn't own a single windfarm, and has gone out of their way to make it harder for wind project to take root.

Losers!

Despite this, we have about 400MW of wind online - the majority of this has local #Indigenous groups as the majority investors.

nbp keeps fighting in court to extend the life of our #coal buring power plant (!!!) past 2030. And losing.

nbp is absolutely desperate for money and the government board is actually doing a pretty good job of protecting the citizens by constantly denying nbp's rate increase asks. There is NO WAY they are not going to sell our data to anyone who will give them a nickle.

Day after day, year after year, we not only let these incompetent and dangerous people poison us and waste ungodly sums of money... we're paying them millions of dollars to do so.

#nbPower #SurveillanceCapitalism #OilLobby

Electricity Costs Surge as NB Power Secures Rate Hike Approval

New Brunswick households will pay about $118 more per year for electricity as NB Power's rate hike of nearly 4.5% is approved by regulators.

#NBPower, #ElectricityCosts, #NewBrunswick, #RateHike, #ConsumerCosts

https://newsletter.tf/nb-power-electricity-rate-hike-august-2024-household-cost/

Electricity bills for New Brunswick homes will go up by almost 4.5%, costing the average family an extra $118 each year.

#NBPower, #ElectricityCosts, #NewBrunswick, #RateHike, #ConsumerCosts
https://newsletter.tf/nb-power-electricity-rate-hike-august-2024-household-cost/

NB Power should operate independently without political interference, review says

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11751700/nb-power-report-released/