Hydro One CEO receives $4 Million Salary while 60,000 families have their power turned off

Kathleen Wynne and the Liberal Government in Ontario have increased Hydro Rates (Electricity costs) by over 200 % since 2008.

In many rural parts of Ontario the costs are even higher since Ontario Hydro companies can charge higher costs for "Delivery" of the electricity along wires to each home.

In many cases Hydro Bills have gone from $100 a month to over $500 per month. That's $6,000 / year for electricity needed to run lights, refrigerators, stoves, heating and cooling. Some people who made the switch to Geothermal heating and cooling are seeing Hydro Bills above $1,000 per month since the pumps needed to circulate the glycol are run on Electricity.

This year the Hydro companies have turned off the power to 60,000 homes for not paying their Electricity bills ....

Meanwhile, this guy - Mayo Schmidt  the New CEO of Hydro One receives $ 4 Million dollars a year Salary !  For what ? Extracting every last penny from the poor people of Ontario ? Please, tell me this is just a really really bad joke.

People in Ontario can no longer pay their Hydro Bills and are having their Electricity turned off and this guy gives himself a $3.5 Million dollar raise ?

It is Winter here and many people still heat their homes with Electricity, and now this guy, who elected to pay himself $4 Million a year is turning off their power ? Something is very wrong in Ontario.

No wonder everybody in Ontario wants to get off the grid.

From the Financial Post:
http://business.financialpost.com/executive/c-suite/hyrdo-one-ceos-pay-of-4-million-with-bonus-approaches-top-end

Notes:

Number of disconnections

According to the OEB, nearly 60,000 residential customers were disconnected from their hydro services in Ontario for non-payment last year – 9,772 of which were Hydro One customers. The OEB claims utility providers reconnect 99 per cent of households within two business days of disconnection. However, closer analysis of the data provided by the OEB shows that for Hydro One, this figure is significantly lower.

Of the nearly 10,000 disconnections performed by Hydro One last year, only 7,269 were reconnected, or roughly 75 per cent.

Why do our Hydro Rates keep climbing ? Hydro Payroll

Hydro rates going up again, the Ontario Energy Board says. OEB says milder winter is to blame for rate hikes....

Only in Ontario would customers be penalized for reduced electricity consumption.

We do the things we are supposed to do: use smart meters, turn down the temperature, use the dryer dishwasher on off hours, turn off lights and yet we still get screwed."

As a result of lower usage, Regulated Price Plan (RPP) prices did not recover the full cost of serving RPP customers. One of the main reasons prices have increased this last May is to recover this shortfall." With the salaries shown below, it would appear the main function of the electricity system, supposedly supplying electricity to us, is just an incidental activity.

This is where your increased Hydro payment are going ...

HYDRO ONE - MAYO SCHMIDT $1 Million + 3 Million Bonus CEO

OPG - THOMAS MITCHELL $1,720,774 President & Chief Executive Officer
OPG - WAYNE ROBBINS $920,714 Chief Nuclear Officer
OPG - JOHN MURPHY $910,870 Executive Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
Hydro One - CARMINE MARCELLO $728,571 President & Chief Executive Officer
OPG - DONN W. HANBIDGE $670,930 Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
OPG - FRANK CHIAROTTO $616,741 Senior Advisor, Joint Ventures
OPG - PIERRE F. TREMBLAY $596,510 President, Canadian Nuclear Partners
Hydro One - MYLES D'ARCEY $566,834 Senior Vice President, Customer Operations
Hydro One - SANDY STRUTHERS $566,364 Chief Administrative Officer Chief Financial Officer
Hydro One - PETER GREGG $565,272 Chief Operating Officer
OPG - PAUL PASQUET $534,538 Senior Vice President
OPG - WILLIAM ELLIOTT $523,400 Senior Vice President, Nuclear Engineering & Chief Nuclear Engineer
OPG - BRUCE BOLAND $519,636 Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations & Environment
OPG - GLENN JAGER $513,163 Chief Nuclear Officer
OEB - ROSEMARIE LECLAIR $509,223 Chair & Chief Executive Officer
OPG - MICHAEL GRIFFITHS $504,992 Control Room Shift Supervisor
OPG - TONY KOKUS $497,993 Senior Thermal Station Engineer/Officer
OPG - BARBARA KEENAN $474,236 Senior Vice President, People, Culture & Chief Ethics
OPG - CHRISTOPHER GINTHER $454,386 Senior Vice President, Law & General Counsel
OPG - BRIAN DUNCAN $452,164 Senior Vice President, Darlington
Hydro One - WAYNE SMITH $449,489 Senior Vice President, Planning & Operating
OPG - DIETMAR E. REINER $439,547 Senior Vice President, Nuclear Refurbishment
OPG - MICHAEL ALLEN $428,682 Deputy Site Vice President Hydro One

More .... http://www.ontario-hydro.com/salaries-2014

Salaries Related to Ontario 's Hydro Costs between the Ontario Energy Board (OEB), Hydro One and the Ontario Power Generation (OPG) (all three Public Sector Agencies) there are 11,879 employees who make more than $100,000/Year! These top earners draw combined annual earnings of over 1.6 billion dollars. There are 626 making more than $200,000/Year.

According to the Globe and Mail, a whopping 77.5% of Ontario Power Generation employees make over $100,000/Year. Over 70% of
Hydro One employees and over 60% of Ontario Energy Board employees make over 100K. Here we only show the top 182 who are in the Million Dollar Country Club.

Have you ever seen such ridiculous bloated job titles? And they want the customers to pay more!?

Pass this along to those that you think might be as pissed off as you are.....

Is anybody keeping track of how much money Trudeau is handing out to other countries ?

Does Prime Minister Trudeau think that this is his Money?

He says we are a Rich Nation and that Canada can afford to give to other countries all over the world, but does he realize that Canada's Money is money that we have paid as taxpayers ?

Where does he think this money comes from ?

And as he returns from his visit to Liberia where again he handed out Millions of our dollars is he aware that many Canadians cannot afford to pay their Hydro Bills, cannot afford to buy food, cannot afford to pay their rent, thanks to increased taxes and hydro rates ...

Does he remember that many Indigenous People are still without clean drinking water ?

That they are dying from lack of proper infrastructure and housing ?  Does Justin Trudeau know what is happening in his own Country ?

It is time for Justin Trudeau to come home and see what is happening here in Canada, and get to work fixing the problems here in his own country.

I am going to start tracking just how much Money Trudeau has handed out over his 1st year of Power ...

"The National Bank has already predicted that Trudeau's spending could result in a $90 billion deficit by the time the next election comes around."

Trudeau's handouts in his first 100 days in office alone amounted to $5.3 billion ... 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/keith-beardsley/trudeau-deficit_b_9226722.html

Trudeau announces additional $112.8 million for international aid projects

While attending the XVI Summit of La Francophonie in Madagascar, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Sunday, November 27, 2016 that the Canada will provide $112.8 million for international aid projects that will benefit several African countries and Haiti.
According to the official statement, this funding will:

• “contribute to projects that aim to fight climate change, empower women, and protect their rights”
• “will be used to stimulate economic growth, which will create job opportunities for young people and women, and to counter terrorism and prevent radicalization.”

Canada’s foreign aid under Trudeau government 

During his first official visit to Liberia on November 24, 2016, Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced over $12.5 million in new initiatives “aimed at supporting democracy, peace and security, inclusion, and gender equality in Africa.”

Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced during her visit to Madagascar on November 23, 2016 over $7.5 million in funding for three projects that will be implemented in Madagascar.

During her first official visit to Haiti on November 18, 2016, Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced $54 million in funding to support various humanitarian and development projects in Haiti in the wake of the the damage caused by Hurricane Matthew.

Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced on Wednesday, November 16, 2016, new funding “to support education, health and social services for millions of vulnerable Palestinian refugees, as well as urgent humanitarian assistance.” The new funding includes:

• $20 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to help increase access to these essential services. A proportion of Canadian funding will also be used to expand training for staff on the proper and neutral use of social media.
• $5 million to UNRWA’s emergency appeal for Palestinian refugees impacted by the crisis in Syria and surrounding areas.

The Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, hosted by Canada in Montreal, ended with a new pledge for foreign aid. Prime Minister Trudeau announced on Saturday, September 17, 2016 that Canada will pledge $804 million to the Global Fund, for 2017 to 2019. On May 9, 2016, Trudeau, said that Canada will pledge for this cause only $785 million. In total, the conference raised over $12.9 billion in pledges to fight devastating diseases as epidemics by 2030. 
Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 that Canada will contribute $22.6 million over five years to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences – Next Einstein Initiative (AIMS-NEI) to train African mathematical scientists to develop climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions.
Canada’s Liberal government revealed on Friday, August 26, 2016, its new Peace and Stabilization Operations Program (PSOPs) and pledged up to 600 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel to be available for possible deployment to UN peace operations.
The government is devoting $450 million to PSOPs for better protecting “civilians, including the most vulnerable groups, such as displaced persons, refugees, women and children.”
Canada’s PSOPs and future contributions will focus more on the areas of “early warning, conflict prevention, dialogue, mediation and peacebuilding, and the empowerment of women in decision making for peace and security.”
Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced on Monday (July 25, 2016) seven new security and safety initiatives worth more than $17 million during his participation at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-Canada Post-Ministerial Conference in Vientiane, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR).
These seven projects support initiatives across the ASEAN region to enhance counter-terrorism measures; to prevent, deter and combat human smuggling; to strengthen biological and nuclear security; and to bolster resilience in the face of humanitarian disasters.
Dion and Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced on Tuesday, July 19, 2016, that Canada has pledged $158 million over three years to support humanitarian and stabilization efforts for the people of Iraq and up to $200 million in additional financing to the Government of Iraq.
According to the official statement, the $158-million pledge is part of Canada’s three-year, $1.6-billion commitment to Iraq and the region, announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in February 2016, which includes $840 million in humanitarian assistance.
The $200 million is a new commitment, agreed to at the G7 Leaders’ Summit, that will support Iraq’s economic reform efforts through the World Bank.
Of Canada’s pledge of $158 million, $150 million will support the international humanitarian response to help meet the basic needs of conflict-affected Iraqis, $4 million will be provided to the United Nations Development Programme to help Iraqis return to their homes in areas liberated from ISIL, and $4 million will support the clearance of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Ramadi and other liberated areas.
On May 23, 2016 Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey $274 million to United Nations humanitarian and development agencies to strengthen emergency response, ensure child protection in humanitarian crises and build long-term resilience to food insecurity.
According to an official statement, this funding will help strengthen emergency response, child protection and long-term resilience to food insecurity:

• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) – Central Emergency Response Fund ($147 million, 2016-2021)
• Rural Social Protection: Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program – United Nations World Food Programme and the World Bank ($125 million, 2016-2021)
• Child Protection Working Group – UNICEF ($1 million, 2015-2017)
• UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict ($1 million, 2015-2017)

Before tabling the 2016-17 budget, the Liberal government had made pledges to spend more than $5 billions on foreign aid, including $2.65 billion by 2020 to help developing countries deal with climate change; more than $1.6 billion over three years, starting in 2016–17, towards security, stabilization, humanitarian and development assistance for Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon; $678 million over six years, starting in 2015–16, to respond to the Syrian refugee crisis and aid in the resettlement of 25,000 Syrian refugees; and $100 million in 2015–16 to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to help support critical relief activities in the region.
The budget allocated additional funding for foreign aid initiatives, including $256 million over two years to Canada’s International Assistance Envelope (IAE) and up to $586.5 million over three years, starting in 2016–17, for the renewal of key peace and security programs.
On April 15, 2016, Minister Bibeau announced that Canada will contribute $75.4 million in support of projects in health, education and nutrition, as well as a financing mechanism that can assist countries hosting large numbers of Syrian refugees. Following the earthquake in Ecuador (April 2016), Canada provided a $2 million funding commitment to the needy.
On March 24, 2016, Bibeau told the Canadian Press that more aid spending would help Canada win UN Security Council seat when she said: “Canada needs to show the world it is a more generous aid donor if it wants to win a seat on the United Nations Security.

Source: http://en.cijnews.com/?p=62874

Free Land and job to anyone willing to move to Canada ...

The Farmer's Daughter Country Market writes:
"BEAUTIFUL ISLAND NEEDS PEOPLE. We are an established business in the heart of Cape Breton, rich in jobs, land, and potential, but no people. Are you someone who is looking to live a simpler life, close to nature, in an area that still believes in community meals and weekly jam sessions?

We can't give you big money, but we can give you an awesome life. Our business is busy from May to December, with slower months January to April, so you can enjoy our amazing winters. We have lots of good ideas and we want to
continue to build on our accomplishments but we don't have enough hands to help.
We are located in a little village called Whycocomagh, which can be found in the middle (the heart) of Cape Breton. It is an area surrounded by beautiful mountains and the shining Bras d'Or lake where kayaks and canoes outnumber motorboats.


We are a true four-season climate and we love it that way. We are looking for people who are environmentally conscious, want to be part of a community and will see our business not as you work for us, but we all work together to create something to be proud of. If you take pride in being friendly, helpful, and positive and have skills in the food industry or customer service, then you are who we are looking for. We cannot offer you big money (wages in local small Cape Breton businesses are not high) but we can offer you a great incentive to come and try us out. One thing our business does have is LOTS of LAND. 

If you decide this opportunity might fit your dreams and goals for a close to nature and community focused life, then we are willing to offer you 2 acres of woodland where you can immediately set up your tiny house or quaint cabin. Plus give you access to our farmland and other resources we have available. If you are still working with us after five years and we all still like each other after that time, then the land is yours for the cost of migrating it out and putting it in your name. Cape Breton is amazing but our population is decreasing. Corporate development has been seen as the solution in the past but that often comes at the expense of our environment. We think there is a better way.

If you are interested in this unique opportunity please email your resume along with a letter about yourself to fdaughter@icloud.com

Via: Farmers Daughter Country Market Facebook Page

** UPDATE: They have hired 3 families from British Columbia and will be looking to hire 3 to 4 more in the Spring. - DO NOT include your email / information in comment Section of this blog.  Send your resume and story to their Email Address as Instructed above.


To see a few images of  Whycocomagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada and the Farmer's Daughter Country Market  watch the Video below....


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whycocomagh,_Nova_Scotia /  CTV News Update 

Man builds giant wind turbine in Suburban backyard ...

Growing tired of the rapidly rising cost of Hydro in Ontario,  Nepean Resident Bill Smith has taken drastic measures and has constructed a massive Wind Turbine and Solar Farm in his back yard.

He is now generating 1,000 KW/mo  and is completely free from the Ontario Hydro grid.

Rather than complain,  many neighbours have lined up to have Bill construct similar towers in their backyard.

There is no telling how far this will go. But finally people are waking up and taking action.

When asked what drove him to such extremes Bill said ... Extremes ? This is nothing.  I have room for 5 more -  It was my $1200 month Hydro bill that pushed me over the edge.  I just could not take it any more, he says. After seeing my bill go up and up and up, I had to do something.  I calculated that I could build one of these suckers every month for the next 10 years and save a fortune. I did a little research online and there it was, the Turbo X5000-E3 Industrial Grade Wind Turbine.

I have calculated that I can generate over 1,000 KWhr /mo no problems, even when the wind ain't blowin....  Stay tuned for more he says.

Note: Industrial wind turbines  similar to the widely used GE 1.5-megawatt model, for example, consists of 116-ft blades atop a 212-ft tower for a total height of 328 feet. The blades sweep a vertical airspace of just under an acre.
Note: This is Satire. 

Electricity is NOT a Luxury it is an ESSENTIAL Service.

Canada is NOT a 3rd world Country. Electricity is NOT a Luxury. It is an Essential Service.

However, what Ontario has done is create a Monopoly. There is no choice, no options.

In Ontario we have One power Company control each area of the Province. There is no Competition. They have required that we run their wires into our homes. No Options.

We were required to have the Government install Smart Meters in our homes.... then, after everyone was locked in they started to crank up the rates, and crank up the rates, and crank up the rates.

We are the proverbial Frog in the boiling pot of water. In 2008 the water started at room temperature around 2.7 cents per KWHr, then the rates were cranked up, and cranked up, until this past May the rates had risen over 200 % and the Delivery Charges as much as 1000 %.

Now the water is at a boil and frogs are starting to die. The Hydro companies are disconnecting people because they cannot pay their Hydro Bills. Well, Enough is Enough.

This Organized Criminal strangle hold on the Citizens of Ontario has to End. It will end well or it will end badly. Ontario must provide competitive rates for Electricity or their will be a Mass Exodus out of this Province.  An Exodus of Business and an Exodus of Citizens. The hour is upon us.