From: Brandy Gellner <Brandy.Gellner@libertyutilities.com>
Date: Mon, May 4, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Subject: Automatic reply: Matter 552 - NB Power 2024-2025 And Games People Play
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
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From: Moore, Rob - M.P. <Rob.Moore@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Subject: Automatic reply: Matter 552 - NB Power 2024-2025 And Games People Play
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
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Member of Parliament for Fundy Royal
From: Shelley Petit <chairperson@nbcpd.org>
Date: Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Matter 552 - NB Power 2024-2025 And Games People Play
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
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Louis-Philippe Gauthier figures NB Power has ripped off small businesses about half a billion dollars over the last 25 years.
The local spokesman for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says he came up with the rough figure when his organization looked closely at the amount the public utility was charging its small business customers, a rate class called general service.
“I remember the last time I napkin-calculated this,” he said in an interview on Monday. “If you considered that businesses were overpaying anywhere between $18 million to $22 million a year, subsidizing the residential rates, and then multiplied that going backward 10 years, that’s up to $220 million, roughly. So over, let’s say 25 years, you could have seen small businesses in New Brunswick subsidizing residential ratepayers by over half a billion dollars.
“That’s not chump change, for sure, but it’s in the past. We have to make sure we aren’t subsidizing the other rates going forward.”
For years, the organization and the small businesses it represents have been complaining that NB Power has overcharged them for their electricity bills.
Like most utilities, NB Power follows a user-pay model. The money it recoups from ratepayers is supposed to pay for the service they get.
But the devil is in the details.
NB Power charges different rates to different kinds of customers. Large industrial customers might pay a lower overall rate because it’s cheaper to give them large amounts of electricity in bulk, with fewer lines and other infrastructure required to service them.
Households are among the most expensive to provide electricity on a per-customer basis. It costs far more money to build, maintain and service the thousands of power lines, transformers and meters connecting individual homes than it does for a few big users.
Small commercial operations would be found somewhere in between.
But through NB Power’s own admission, it hasn’t always been fair to this large group of small business customers, overcharging them and undercharging households.
It’s called rate cross-subsidization, and the business group wants it to stop.
On Thursday, NB Power filed a 115-page plan to the regulator, the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board, that spells out its rate design modernization plan.
The latest update builds on work started six years ago to improve its rate design, at the board’s behest.
“The rate design modernization process has been underway since 2020 and is focused on fairness,” wrote NB Power spokeswoman Elizabeth Fraser in an email to Brunswick News.
“We want to make sure electricity rates better reflect the cost to serve, while also reducing unintended cross‑subsidization between customers.”
She said the board would have to review and approve any proposed changes before they took effect.
So far, the public intervenor for the energy sector, who is appointed by the provincial government to safeguard the public interest, hasn’t taken a stance on the new rate design.
“Rate design is always about who’s gonna pay for what and how much,” Alain Chiasson explained in an interview. “It’s kind of a zero-sum game. If you raise the percentage for one group, well, the other group will lose.”
However, the intervenor added that rate design was intricate and complicated, given all the costs for equipment, fuel and power plants. He added that recently, NB Power eliminated one rate class, lumping some smaller business customers with larger ones, complicating matters.
NB Power proposes to change the rates beginning in 2027 over several years. The utility wants to smooth out the transition process, so households don’t experience rate shock similar to what they have gone through the last few years.
Electricity prices for all customer classes have gone up about 28 per cent in four years. About 430,000 NB Power customers were hit with the higher prices.
For the average household alone, the increases have cost hundreds of dollars more each year because most New Brunswickers heat with electricity.
Gauthier said businesses understood that justice couldn’t be served right away, otherwise households would suffer price pain enormously.
“Businesses would expect that the Energy and Utilities Board to instruct NB Power to apply the new rate design in a timely way,” he said. “Is timely three years, seven or 10?
“The sooner the better.”
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From: John Furey <JohnFurey@fureylegal.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:31:03 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE Matter 552 - NB Power 2024-2025 Its
obvious Holland's minions in NB Power are pulling a fast one within
the EUB before Higgy has a writ dopped an Mikey is out a job
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
I am away from my office until Tuesday, February 20, 2024, and have
limited access to email. If your matter requires immediate attention,
please contact me directly at 506-444-1328.
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2024/02/nb-power- facing-326m-revenue-loss- after.html
Monday 5 February 2024
Games People Play
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power- rate-request-1.7108327
Delayed N.B. Power rate request promoted as a government achievement by PC Party
Premier Blaine Higgs personally credited with thwarting increase
despite ordering utility to shape up
Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Feb 08, 2024 6:00 AM AST
A man with grey hair and glasses addresses microphones in a hallyway.
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is being credited with his party
for thwarting part of a 9.25 per cent rate increase request by N.B.
Power, even though the utility was following instructions it got from
Higgs. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative Party is applauding the
possibility N.B. Power may not be able to raise electricity rates as
planned on April 1 even though that may cost the utility $32.6 million
in revenue it needs to reach financial targets set for it by the
Progressive Conservative government.
"Who would you rather see get the $32.6M? N.B. Power? Or N.B.
Families?" the PC party posted on its social media platforms Tuesday
about the potential for a delayed rate increase.
N.B. Power has applied for a 9.25 per cent increase that it says it
needs to begin on April 1, but a hearing by the New Brunswick Energy
and Utilities Board into that request isn't scheduled to start until
mid-May because it was submitted more than 10 weeks late.
That, N.B. Power fears, could push a decision on new rates from the
EUB out until July 1, which its lawyer John Furey has said the utility
cannot afford.
"Even in the most optimistic scenario in which the board is able to
render a partial decision which enables the implementation of rates by
July 1, 2024, N.B. Power will sustain a negative net impact of $32.636
million," Furey wrote in a submission to the EUB last week.
A facebook post In posts on X and Facebook, New
Brunswick's PC Party said Premier Blaine Higgs 'helped save
ratepayers"' by causing N.B. Power to file its rate increase request
72 days late. (PCNB / Facebook)
N.B. Power was operating under a directive from the EUB to file for
new rates by Oct. 4 to allow for the submission of evidence for and
against the proposal, a full hearing on that collected evidence and a
decision, prior to April 1.
However, on Sept. 25, nine days before that October filing deadline,
Premier Blaine Higgs signed a cabinet order extending debt targets
N.B. Power has to meet by two years, from March 2027 to March 2029.
That significantly lowered the amount of money the utility would need
for immediate debt reduction in the coming year and it upended five
months of budgeting at N.B. Power which then had to be reconstructed.
Eventually the rate request was filed on Dec. 15, 72 days late.
"The entire GRA (general rate application) filing package, which was
largely complete as of September 27, 2023, when the directive was
received, must be updated and/or revised to reflect that directive,"
N.B. Power's chief financial officer Darren Murphy said in an
affidavit explaining the delay to the board.
In its social media posts Tuesday the PC party credited Premier Blaine
Higgs personally for causing the delay in N.B. Power's application and
putting its April 1 increase in jeopardy.
A tweet Prominent PC candidate Faytene Grasseschi told followers that
the Higgs government 'chose families' when it slowed down N.B. Power's
application for new rates. (Faytene Grasseschi/ X)
Premier Blaine Higgs "and the PCNB Government helped save ratepayers
from at least some of N.B. Power's massive planned hike," it wrote.
Prominent PC candidate in the riding of Hampton-Fundy-St. Martins
Faytene Grasseschi amplified the post on her own platforms and
suggested that forcing a delay in N.B. Power's application had been
done by the premier and cabinet on purpose.
"The provincial (PCNB) government chose families," wrote Grasseschi.
However, the "massive planned hike" the PC party says Higgs interfered
with flows from instructions given to N.B. Power by Higgs in the first
place.
In its 300-page rate application, N.B. Power states it needs to
generate more than $1 billion in profit over the next five years to
meet financial targets it was given in the premier's Sept. 25
directive and that starts with a 9.25 per cent rate increase on April
1 and a second 9.25 per cent increase the following April.
"The Executive Council of the Government of New Brunswick directs N.B.
Power to make plans to achieve a capital structure of at least 20 per
cent equity by 2029," states the application.
A man wearing a suit standing in front of a brown building Natural
Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland has expressed
concerns for several years about N.B. Power's financial condition and
has argued for less government interference in its affairs. (Jacques
Poitras/CBC)
"The requested [9.25 per cent] increases form the starting point for
achieving 20 per cent equity by March 31, 2029."
The Higgs government has insisted for several years N.B. Power needs
to improve its financial condition by reducing its high debt levels, a
position also taken by New Brunswick's last two auditors general.
Originally in December, Energy Minister Mike Holland said he wasn't
happy to see the large increase N.B. Power was asking for but said he
supported it taking action to get its finances in order.
"Nobody wants to see something like that, but it is a part of the
process of the utility properly putting together a rate increase
request," said Holland.
On Wednesday Holland's office did not return messages asking about the
PC Party posts crediting the government with slowing down N.B. Power's
application.
Doug Williams, executive director of the New Brunswick PC Party said
the post was made to counterbalance a CBC article on the issue
published last Monday that presented the delayed rate increase only as
a problem for N.B. Power, not a benefit to utility customers.
A building with NB Power written on it N.B. Power says it needs to
turn more than $1 billion in profit over five years to meet 2029
financial targets set for it by the Higgs government, starting with a
9.25 per cent increase this April. (Michael Heenan/CBC)
"The CBC article only chose to focus on "revenue loss" for N.B.
Power," wrote Williams in an email.
"PCNB wanted to provide balance to the discussion by highlighting that
changing the debt reduction dates for N.B. Power equals more money in
the pocket of New Brunswickers."
N.B. Power has applied to the EUB for a special interim rate increase
to take effect on April 1 that it says it can refund to customers in
whole or in part if the May hearing does not support what it has asked
for.
A similar request in 2016 was rejected by the board.
N.B. Power claims without an interim increase it will suffer $32.6
million in lost revenue in April, May and June that it cannot afford
to give up.
About half of that would be revenue from residential customers and
half from commercial and industrial customers.
The EUB will hear arguments on that application March 1.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Jones
Reporter
Robert Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick
since 1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New
Brunswick won several regional and national awards and led to the
adoption of price regulation in 2006.
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David Amos
Why is it I am humming the old Joe South tune from my youth "Games
People Play"???
David Amos
Does anyone recall NB Power suing the EUB last year???
David Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise
David Amos
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Go Figure
New Brunswick Power Corporation
APPLICATION FOR INTERIM RATES
NOTICE
New Brunswick Power Corporation has filed a Notice of Motion with the
New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board seeking an interim order as
follows:
1. Approving the schedule of rates for the 2024/25 fiscal year as set
out in Exhibit NBP 02.07 in Matter 552 which reflects differential
rates and an average 9.25 per cent increase to all customer classes,
effective from April 1, 2024 until further Order of the Board;
2. Directing NB Power to make billing adjustments for customers in the
event that final rates approved by the Board are different than rates
approved in the Interim Order, and further directing NB Power to keep
appropriate records to permit such adjustments;
3. Directions respecting the hearing of this Motion; and
4. Such further Orders and Directions as the Board may deem appropriate.
NB Power’s Notice of Motion and the supporting affidavit may be viewed
on the Board’s website at www.nbeub.ca under Matter No. 552.
As per Rule 4.3 of the Rules of Procedure, any party to this matter
who wishes to respond to the Motion must file and serve on all other
parties, a written response outlining the party’s position and the
grounds for same along with a specific indication of any evidence upon
which the party seeks to present or rely no later than Thursday,
February 8th at 4:00 p.m. (Atlantic Time).
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NB Power is to file with the Board, and serve on all other parties,
its written argument in support of its motion, including copies of any
authorities upon which it intends to rely no later than Thursday,
February 15th at 4:00 p.m. (Atlantic Time).
Parties who have filed a written response to the Motion are to file
their written argument outlining their position in response to the
Motion, including copies of any authorities upon which they intend to
rely no later than Thursday, February 22nd at 4:00 p.m. (Atlantic
Time).
The Board will hold an in-person hearing on the Motion for Interim
Rates on Friday, March 1, 2024, beginning at 9:30 a.m. (Atlantic
Time). The location will be confirmed by the Board shortly.
New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board
P.O. Box 5001
Suite 1400, 15 Market Square
Saint John, NB E2L 4Y9
Telephone: (506) 658-2504
Toll Free 1-866-766-2782
Fax: (506) 643-7300
E-Mail: general@nbeub.
David Amos
Reply to David Amos
As per Rule 4.3 of the Rules of Procedure, any party to this matter
who wishes to respond to the Motion must file and serve on all other
parties, a written response outlining the party’s position and the
grounds for same along with a specific indication of any evidence upon
which the party seeks to present or rely no later than Thursday,
February 8th at 4:00 p.m. (Atlantic Time).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIBlCac8_wk&ab_channel=Beat- Club
Joe South - Games People Play (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDli21XGZQI&ab_ channel=CharlesLeblanc
Minister of Natural Resources and Energy Mike Holland rants of leaving
politics with Blogger!
Charles Leblanc
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From: "Holland, Mike Hon. (ERD/DER)" <Mike.Holland@gnb.ca>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 19:33:51 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mikey Holland and Johnny Green Does your
buddy Chucky Leblanc have the balls to ask Roger Brown about my 1965
Harley and the Yankee Wiretaps tapes in its saddlebag?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Thank you for your email. Your thoughts, comments and input are
greatly valued. You can be assured that all emails and letters are
carefully read, reviewed and taken into consideration.
If your issue is Constituency related, please contact Cheryl Layton at
my constituency office in Albert at (506) 856-4961 or
Cheryl.Layton@gnb.ca.
Thanks again for your email!
Mike Holland
Minister
MLA, Albert
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Merci pour votre courriel. Nous vous sommes très reconnaissants de
nous avoir fait part de vos idées, commentaires et observations. Nous
tenons à vous assurer que nous lisons attentivement et prenons en
considération tous les courriels et lettres que nous recevons.
Si votre courriel est lié à un enjeu de circonscription, veuillez
contacter Cheryl Layton à mon bureau de circonscription dans Albert au
(506) 856-4961 ou Cheryl.Layton@gnb.ca.
Merci encore pour votre courriel!
Mike Holland
Ministre
Député, Albert
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