Our Opinion:
Our competition knows leftist whackos run Ontario and is waiting to pounce

Here is my complaint.

I used $130.00 worth of power and $4.11 worth of water last month and my bill from Bluewater Power was $398.91.

You are probably asking how that happened? The bill actually took my breath away and I had to sit down and study it.

In addition to power consumption, Bluewater Power, which is a monopoly and distributes millions in profits to its municipal owners charged more than $79.00 to deliver power, billed just under $13.00 for regulatory charges and a similar amount for debt reduction.

Which brings me to water.

How $4.11 worth of water manifested itself in to $146.00 is fascinating. Add $65.00 in distribution charges and $76.00 in sewer charges and you are there.

Well sort of.

Don't forget $18 in Harmonized Sales Tax.

Here's the problem.

Recession, conservation, leftist whacks and tree huggers.

Our overtaxed manufacturers are leaving in droves. Fewer manufacturers, less power, less water, no jobs.

Then there is conservation. We are being encouraged to use power at off peak hours, turn off the lights, unplug the computers and don't water the lawn.

We have embraced darkness as our friend and our lawns are burnt to a crisp. I have a sprinkler system, which draws water from the lake, which explains why my lawn is slightly greener, and my water usage is just $4.11.

Which brings me to Maria Van Brommel, the two term MPP from Lambton Middlesex. She and her husband operate a small farm outside of Strathroy. Her lucrative six figure MPP's salary and expense account supplements income from the farm.

Her provincial pay allows her to promote the "go green" electrical policies of the Dalton McGuinty government without feeling the financial impact. She likes solar and wind power even though it costs four times more per kilowatt hour to produce green power than traditional power and is heavily subsidized by McGuinty's debt - ridden government. The current Provincial deficit is $20 billion and the accumulated debt since McGuinty came to power two elections ago is $200 billion. That's up $80 billion.

Van Brommel drinks the Kool Aid and believes in the leftist policies of her leader.

Which is fine if we could afford it but we can't.

We can't afford massive development of green power and still have an economy. In two years power costs at our printing plant have moved from $12,000.00 per month to more than $34,000.00. My controller opens the power bill with trepidation.

Van Brommel is the same politician who wants to shutdown Lambton Generating Station, among the cleanest in North America. And she wants to do it at a time when our Michigan competitors are adding scrubbers to their coal - fired stations.

They know what Van Brommel doesn't.

Her sudden shift to green power is costing too much green.

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