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John Pickernell
Assistant Board Secretary
Ontario Energy Board
416-440-7605
Fax: 416-440-7656
Website: www.oeb.gov.on.ca
Official Correspondence: BoardSec@oeb.gov.on.ca

Address:
P.O. Box 2319
2300 Yonge Street 27th Floor
Toronto, ON
M4P 1E4
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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Hooker [mailto:chuckh@sympatico.ca]
Sent: August 21, 2009 6:05 PM
To: BoardSec
Cc: Sylvia Jones, MPP; Randy Hillier, MPP
Subject: EB-2009-0096

Attention: Board Secretary

I wish to protest the exorbitant rate increase proposed by Hydro One
Networks Inc.

The text of the public announcement says that the electrical
consumption portion of the bill will increase by up to 24.6% in 2009
and up to 23.2% more in 2010. Being an experienced Hydro One
consumer, I know that those maxima will apply to me, resulting in a
two-year increase in my hydro consumption bill of about 53.5% or over
half again of the current amount.

As the delivery and other charges are keyed in large part to
electrical consumption, they also will rise; so my total bill will be
half again as much in 2011 as it is now.

Given that Ontario's recession has reduced the cost of living by over
0.5% in the past year, and that my pension will not, therefore, rise
and may even fall, why should I be obliged to pay a 53.5% increase on
my Hydro bill?

This is another tax grab by the Ontario government, who persist in
planning hugely expensive and dubious nuclear power plants when
electrical consumption has actually dropped and some power generators
were turned off this year. You should instead be sponsoring low-head
water turbines for farmers, most of whom have surface water running
through their properties.

The same Hydro One Networks Inc. recently fired a Ms Eleanor
Clitheroe, after first paying her a third of a million dollars of
Hydro rate money in severance, as well as an annual salary about ten
times more than justified, plus a yacht priced at well over my entire
lifetime earnings. That was not a sign of good management, but I'm
willing to guess that the current management is not working for less.

My suggestion is to reduce Hydro rates by about 0.5% each year for two
years, to conform to the cost of living, and management salaries by
the same amount.

If this rate increase is approved, my thoughts will turn to the next
Ontario election.

Charles Hooker RR # 2 Orangeville, Ontario L9W 2Y9 519-942-8085
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