- Huge bill received from a Fortis electricity customer whose house no longer exists – it burned down.
We got this bill from Fortis BC, the electric utility here in Kelowna BC. We have been complaining for years that we keep changing our energy patterns, and the bill is always super high. They always respond that there is no error in the readings, so pay it or we’ll cut off your power. Here is the smoking gun. We just received this bill for May and June of this year, and as you know, a fire burned our house down. There is no house here, and look at the electric bill.
We called Fortis, and they said that they checked the meter in March, and it was accurate. They basically said, “too bad, so sad”.
Spread this and make it go viral, will ya?
- At the request of C4ST in Toronto, a new petition is in the “letters” section.
- Hydro One in Ontario hit with $125 million class action lawsuit. Their problems and abuses are the same as BC Hydro’s and Fortis’s (see above bill for an example) :- Thousands of customers stopped receiving bills.- Others received bills based on estimates, then later received “massive ‘catch-up’ bills.”- Hydro One automatically withdrew large quantities of money from customers’ accounts without notice or explanation.
– Thousands of customers dealt with billing and administrative errors, including “bills that did not reflect the electricity actually consumed.”
“Hydro One customers are particularly vulnerable to Hydro One’s administration and billing abuses as a result of its near monopolistic nature and the importance of the services it renders to customers,” said Kirk M. Baert, a partner at Koskie Minsky LLP, in a news release about the court filing.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hydro-one-hit-125m-class-012312649.html
- From a US group, the real story behind $$meters – the greed, incompetence, and collusion. This explains why the $$mart grid is happening everywhere at the same time. Be sure to click on the 2 grid charts to see how ITRON fits in.
http://detonateur.blogspot.ca/2015/03/smart-meters-meshed-network.html
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Letters:
There is a trending petition on Change.org asking HC to adhere to the HESA recommendations. Please sign and share widely!
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Newsletter prepared by Sharon