Something needs to be done about hydro

Dear Editor,

I am writing to you regarding the high electricity rates in Oshawa and Ontario. In June, the hydro for Oshawa street lights cost $3,600. However, the final amount that Oshawa had to pay was just over $167,000. This figure caught me by surprise, as well as Mayor John Henry. There is some hidden charge called the global adjustment charge that shot this charge up to $167,000. Mayor Henry has been trying to get to the bottom of this and is pulling his hair out to find a solution to this problem. I feel that some kind of an investigation should be done here as Mayor Henry is for the people and needs all the help he can get. No doubt, he has spent a lot of personal time on this in addition to other work that comes his way.

Fast forward to the fact that the Oshawa PUC may be joining up with the other two hydro utilities in this area. How can we join when these high charges defy a suitable explanation? I feel that, along with a lot of other Oshawa residents, we should study one problem at a time. Give a thorough breakdown of this GA mystery before we jump ship from our beloved PUC. To simply pay this GA charge on each hydro bill is to admit that we don’t care what we pay, or what the city pays for hydro.

Oshawa residents should be at the next PUC meeting that is held to get our feelings on this matter of importance.

If we don’t band together under Mayor Henry, we will be manipulated even further by Big Brother (or Big Sister), and see our income being frittered away by people who pretend to care but who have shown in the past and present that they are not taking care of us for our own good. I prefer to know where my money is going each and every month. Do you?

Philip Dawson