I just got back from the Annual Meeting of the
Roseau Electric Co-operative up here in northern Minnesota.
What a fiasco.
Nothing but a snow-job
from a bunch of corporate lackeys trying to explain why our electric
bills have more than doubled in the last three years as they attempted
to explain the price increase away on government ordered environmental
protections when we could be getting clean, green hydro-produced
electricity from the provincially
(government) owned Manitoba Hydro.
Instead the members of the board of
the Roseau Electric Co-op (actually nothing but the good old boys club
[not a single woman or person of color on the board]) entered into a
dirty deal (literally a dirty deal in more ways than one) with Minkota
Power which is making a whole bunch of wealthy people even richer
operating one of the dirtiest coal-burning electric producing plants in
the world polluting our air, water and land transmitting the power back
to us on government subsidized lines and distribution centers when
Manitoba Hydro has lines running right through our area. These idiots
tied our rural electric co-op into a fifty year deal buying this dirty,
high-priced electricity from Minkota when Manitoba Hydro could supply us
with all the power our community will ever need. Talk about stupidity.
And then these morons have the audacity to stand in front of
four-hundred people to tell us we should join with the high-priced
lobbyist they hired to try to convince the politicians that global
warming is a liberal hoax.
Many people are still paying off electric bills they had to put on their credit cards from two-years ago.
It won't be very long before many people won't be able to afford electricity.