Saint John wind farm undercuts New Brunswick Power electricity prices by more than half

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1. > It’s a discount so deep it has N.B. Power concerned about others making a similar choice to bypass its system, and pricing, in a similar way.

   >“There is an electricity system that needs to be paid paid for,” Brad Coady, the N.B. Power vice-president, said last month during an Energy and Utilities Board hearing into the utility’s proposed new rates.

   > “To the extent that customers have the wherewithal to escape N.B. Power being their supplier of choice, that causes cost-shifting onto other customers. That’s the concern.”

   The coal company can get fked. If people want to pay for the high cost of coal production and kept producing dirty air as a byproduct they can – but they should be allowed to choose cheaper production.

2. Yes. Yes!. YES!!!

3. “Escape”