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Title: Green light for Alberta power lines
Category: Provincial Politics
Posted By: Alta_redneck
Date: 2012-02-24 07:03:25
Canadian

[Alta_redneck]

FFS, we get a couple of days of high demand in January when it got cold and 2 generation plants go down and then we end up paying a premium price to buy power from BC. It doesn't seem like transmission lines are the problem.

Transalta is found guilty last November of price fixing and we built powerlines for them to sell power to the US, all the while we are paying some of the highest electricity prices in the country.


Hello Wildrose Party, where do I sign up.

[Yogi]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

FFS, we get a couple of days of high demand in January when it got cold and 2 generation plants go down and then we end up paying a premium price to buy power from BC. It doesn't seem like transmission lines are the problem.

Transalta is found guilty last November of price fixing and we built powerlines for them to sell power to the US, all the while we are paying some of the highest electricity prices in the country.


Hello Wildrose Party, where do I sign up.

Save me a place in line, AR!

[Alta_redneck]

Yogi Yogi:

[B-o] Save me a place in line, AR!

I can only hold a spot for so long Yogi.

I forgot to mention Transalta didn't even get a slap on the wrist for screwing their customers, sure they had to pay the money back but that's it.

[Yogi]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Yogi Yogi:

[B-o] Save me a place in line, AR!

I can only hold a spot for so long Yogi.

I forgot to mention Transalta didn't even get a slap on the wrist for screwing their customers, sure they had to pay the money back but that's it.

WHO did they have to pay the $$$ back to? I sure as hell didn't see a refund on my utility bill!

[DrCaleb]

Yogi Yogi:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Yogi Yogi:

[B-o] Save me a place in line, AR!

I can only hold a spot for so long Yogi.

I forgot to mention Transalta didn't even get a slap on the wrist for screwing their customers, sure they had to pay the money back but that's it.

WHO did they have to pay the $$$ back to? I sure as hell didn't see a refund on my utility bill!

I see 'Delivery Charges". What other industry gets a free delivery system that costs little to maintain, and charges the custoemr for it?

Delivering the product is their problem, not mine.

[Thanos]

The truth is that we need the extra power generation, especially up in the McMurray region as more plants go on-line. The problem is that the province and the home-owning consumers have been so thoroughly Enron-ized by the deceitful and fraudulent way the utilities were deregulated back in the Klein years that it's almost impossible to believe that the government is telling the truth on any of this. It's a literal no-win scenario for anyone here. And, given their unending TeaParty-ish babble about "free markets are sacred", I certainly don't trust the Wildrosers any more than I do the Tories. If they're that slavishly pro-business and anti-regulation, a political combination that has been absolutely disasterous everywhere that it's ever been put into practice, they could make things even worse for Albertans than the PC's have.

[bootlegga]

Thanos Thanos:

The truth is that we need the extra power generation, especially up in the McMurray region as more plants go on-line. The problem is that the province and the home-owning consumers have been so thoroughly Enron-ized by the deceitful and fraudulent way the utilities were deregulated back in the Klein years that it's almost impossible to believe that the government is telling the truth on any of this. It's a literal no-win scenario for anyone here. And, given their unending TeaParty-ish babble about "free markets are sacred", I certainly don't trust the Wildrosers any more than I do the Tories. If they're that slavishly pro-business and anti-regulation, a political combination that has been absolutely disasterous everywhere that it's ever been put into practice, they could make things even worse for Albertans than the PC's have.

[DrCaleb]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Thanos Thanos:

The truth is that we need the extra power generation, especially up in the McMurray region as more plants go on-line. The problem is that the province and the home-owning consumers have been so thoroughly Enron-ized by the deceitful and fraudulent way the utilities were deregulated back in the Klein years that it's almost impossible to believe that the government is telling the truth on any of this. It's a literal no-win scenario for anyone here. And, given their unending TeaParty-ish babble about "free markets are sacred", I certainly don't trust the Wildrosers any more than I do the Tories. If they're that slavishly pro-business and anti-regulation, a political combination that has been absolutely disasterous everywhere that it's ever been put into practice, they could make things even worse for Albertans than the PC's have.

Same from me.

We need the power lines, but I'll be damned if I'm paying for them twice. Once through taxes, and again through "Delivery Charges".

In related news, Premier Redford froze all these mystery fees on Elecricity until a review can be called.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/alber ... story.html

http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local ... montonHome

[Alta_redneck]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

We need the power lines.

Enmax apparently has that covered.

$1:

Enmax is building an 800-mega-watt natural-gas-fired power plant on the southeastern border of Calgary, expected to come online by 2015. The plant will have a significant impact on the provincial transmission system by reducing north-south flows.

http://www.electricityforum.com/news/ja ... split.html

For me the freeze on the charges is just a smoke screen, it's not these charges that have doubled in the last year or so.

[dino_bobba_renno]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

bootlegga bootlegga:

Thanos Thanos:

The truth is that we need the extra power generation, especially up in the McMurray region as more plants go on-line. The problem is that the province and the home-owning consumers have been so thoroughly Enron-ized by the deceitful and fraudulent way the utilities were deregulated back in the Klein years that it's almost impossible to believe that the government is telling the truth on any of this. It's a literal no-win scenario for anyone here. And, given their unending TeaParty-ish babble about "free markets are sacred", I certainly don't trust the Wildrosers any more than I do the Tories. If they're that slavishly pro-business and anti-regulation, a political combination that has been absolutely disasterous everywhere that it's ever been put into practice, they could make things even worse for Albertans than the PC's have.

Same from me.

We need the power lines, but I'll be damned if I'm paying for them twice. Once through taxes, and again through "Delivery Charges".

In related news, Premier Redford froze all these mystery fees on Elecricity until a review can be called.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/alber ... story.html

http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local ... montonHome

News to me, I'm still seeing the fee's being charged. That's my biggest peeve, all the administrative and other assorted fees alone on my power bill add up to more than $110 a month!! That’s before even a single kilowatt hour is added to the bill. I've noticed that over the last year my family has used less and less power every month but our bill keeps going up and up. I can just imagine what they'll be charging once they've completed those new lines and they can claim there are electricity shortages.