PlanetNL13:
Busting the Premier’s Numbers Again
In PlanetNL12, an analysis of Government’s secretive two-tier
declining rate scheme calculated the impact on three types of electricity
customers. The unfairness of such a rate
scheme was made clear: the less electricity you use, the more steeply your
Government wants you to pay for Muskrat.
This approach will tend to hit the many poor and working-class who struggle
to pay their bills especially hard.
Meanwhile at the other end of the spectrum, the few who tend to have
large high-energy homes will be pleased with little difference they’ll find on
their power bill.
How did Government and Nalcor keep this unexpected twist of
rate design? Well, they simply didn’t
want to tell us and for about two years they carefully misled us.
