Hydro smart meter rhetoric just propaganda

Hydro smart meter rhetoric just propaganda

 

 

BY JOHN WALKER, THE CITIZEN MAY 18, 2012

 

 

Ted Olynyk of BC Hydro would have us believe the smart meters are the best thing since sliced bread (Customer feedback important to BC Hydro, May 11). If he is truly interested in customer feedback, perhaps he would provide an answer to some of his "questionable" claims made in defence of the new smart meters.

He states that the meters provide "faster power restoration when there's an outage." Power is restored when the power problem has been repaired and has nothing to do with electric measuring meters.

Olynyk claims that like the smart meters, the old meters have problems. I don't know about you folks, but I have never had a problem with the old meters, nor have we ever had a Hydro employee come by to repair our meter, in the 40 years that I have lived in this province.

He states the new meters will "help save energy and money" and the savings would be "passed on to our customers."

If BC Hydro were truly concerned about saving their customers money, why were millions upon millions of dollars used to purchase new meters when the old units had been functioning properly for many, many years?

He also claims that complaints of high power bills and consump-tion comes "from customers with the old meters." I disagree! Is Olynyk prepared to provide proof of that statement? He claims "a colder winter" is the reason that power bills are higher. I have an old meter and my power consumption has not increased any significant amount.

The public is expected to believe the foregoing statements coming from a corporation whose executives hid Hydro losses in order to give themselves handsome annual bonuses.

My old power meter will remain in place regardless of BC Hydro propaganda.

John Walker Cobble Hill

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