{"id":17334,"date":"2016-08-21T08:36:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T12:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=17334"},"modified":"2021-05-15T07:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T11:44:58","slug":"no-consultation-with-customers-or-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/no-consultation-with-customers-or-neighbours\/","title":{"rendered":"No consultation with customers or neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Collus<\/a>Did you know Collus-PowerStream serves thousands of customers in Stayner, Thornbury and Creemore?<\/strong> More than 4,000 residences, businesses, restaurants, stores, churches, municipal facilities and farms<\/a> are on the Collus-PowerStream distribution network, along with almost 12,200 in Collingwood.<\/p>\n

Do you know how many times Collingwood has consulted with the councils of Town of the Blue Mountains and Clearview over its plan to sell our utility to Hydro One that will crucially and negatively affect those customers in their communities?<\/p>\n

Right: none<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The same number of consultations they have had with local customers. It’s all been done furtively:\u00a0behind closed doors with high-priced, unctuous, lawyers and oleaginous administration staff. A disgraceful breach of public trust.<\/p>\n

The Most Secretive Council Ever plans to sell the service on which these customers depend to a utility that will quickly raise their\u00a0rates<\/a> roughly 10%. Perhaps even higher.<\/p>\n

This will impact the living conditions and quality of life, the economic livelihood and the viability of local businesses and farms in these areas. It will greatly affect the municipalities themselves. How will it\u00a0affect the already-growing problem<\/a> some people have making their existing electricity payments?<\/p>\n

Right: The Block don’t care.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sure,\u00a0it will make it harder for everyone, especially seniors and those on low or fixed income. All part of The Block’s\u00a0war on them.<\/p>\n

My sources say they haven’t even officially informed our neighbours\u00a0of anything yet, let alone included them into their secret negotiations. That shows the arrogant level of disrespect this council has for our municipal neighbours and regional partners. They’re just going to let it be a surprise when the bill-shock comes in.<\/p>\n

Collingwood deserves better. So do our neighbours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Did you know Collus-PowerStream serves thousands of customers in Stayner, Thornbury and Creemore? More than 4,000 residences, businesses, restaurants, stores, churches, municipal facilities and farms are on the Collus-PowerStream distribution network, along with almost 12,200 in Collingwood. Do you know how many times Collingwood has consulted with the councils of Town of the Blue Mountains and Clearview over its plan to sell our utility to Hydro One that will crucially and negatively affect those customers in their communities? Right: none. The same number of consultations they have had with local customers. It’s all been done furtively:\u00a0behind closed doors with high-priced, \u2026…… click below for more \u2193<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,537,546],"tags":[618,140,130,39],"class_list":["post-17334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collingwood","category-council","category-ethics-and-behaviour","tag-collingwood","tag-council","tag-ethics","tag-municipal-politics-2"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":5600,"today_views":1},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26141,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17334\/revisions\/26141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}