Comments on: Hydro One – Dirty Rotten Blood Suckers!

By: guest

guest — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:13:00 +0000

I had the same thing happen to me, Hydro demanded a $500 “security deposit” I refused to pay it and they threatened to cut me off. I contacted the ombudsman, needless to say after the ombudsman approached hydro with the issue the quickly changes their tone with me and I did not pay the security deposit nor will I ever!!!

By: broke and cold

broke and cold — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:04:00 +0000

If every Hydro customer demanded a vote that provincial leaders must obey,
like in the USA, voters can vote on bills rather than allow government to decide.
If we voted on Bill to reduce hydro rates I’ll bet you see panic in Hydro One management – maybe the $3.5 million salary, plus bonus of the CEO might need review.

By: Freevoice

Freevoice — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:39:00 +0000

Hey
Hydro One – Dirty Rotten Blood Suckers! I read you post and have some advice. I think you should commit suicide. You sound like you will eventually become a burden to society and we should not have to sponsor you failed life.

By: Camstoes

Camstoes — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:52:00 +0000

well gee whiz hydro man i’ll stop complaining when ontario dissabiliy support program pay’s me the $25+/hr you make to sit at tim horton’s!!!!!

By: Blaine181

Blaine181 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:19:00 +0000

You have some very valid points, but, the issue becomes productivity versus wages. You are right about the hydro workers being customers also but you guys make so much more money than the average Ontario Employee. It use to be the PUC guys that got all the ribbing. You know 1 guy with a shovel and 9 guys standing around watching. Now you guys do not seem to be any better. They are workin on our road and there was one guy on a chainsaw, 4 trucks and nobody else doing anything. Last week a guy was at the end of our driveway for almost an hour, sitting in his truck and idling all the time. Who cares, it not his gas bill. This type of disregard and lack of productivity adds to the overwhelming burden of high energy costs. Look at the link in Cant tell message. I did!! Out of the hundreds of employees on salary not 1, NO NOT ONE!! makes less than $100,000.00. I found one guy a 4 year APPRENTICE and he makes $100,169.15.

I think that major reform is due!!

By: Blaine181

Blaine181 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:48:00 +0000

Hi Dave:

I did not realize that there was so much discontent with Hydro One. I myself just recieved a bill with an additional $475.00 security deposit. I have sent the the hydro bill befoe due date in full less the deposit and sent them an email. I am trying to investigate the legal issures. I don’t know if they can cut us off or charge interest on unpaid security deposits since it i not services or products rendered. I am going o pursue this as far as I can possibly go. Have you had any luck? Should we join forces? How about a facebook campaign? Lets fight this bs.

By: Diana Felske

Diana Felske — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:27:00 +0000

its would be easy for us to pay our hydro bill if my husband was not on cpp and they are going to cut us off on oct 20 2011 for a deposit we can not afford

By: Diana Felske

Diana Felske — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:21:00 +0000

they want an 800.00 deposit from us

By: BS

BS — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:57:00 +0000

I have a feeling that there are serious malfunction issues with the smart meters and that many of us are being charged higher rates based on assumptions on when we are consuming Hydro. I have just recently gone through an ordeal with Hydro One for my seasonal cottage as a result of receiving a bill for over $4000 were historically they were in the range of $150. Hydro has admitted that something is not right after I spent hours pulling all my bills6 years back and mapping on a spreadsheet to provide them with the proof that something was seriously wrong. As a result of this exercise I had educated myself on the billing process and also became aware that they are making assumptions on when we are consuming hydro and the peak hour charges are definitely not based on our actual consumption. This is completely unacceptable – if they can’t determine when we are consuming they shouldn’t be making assumptions and charging at higher rates.

Up north they have apparently switched the smart meters after the initial installation – if there aren’t problems why are they switching these smart meters? I had asked why would the meters be switched if I did not raise a concern and the response was that thousands of smart meters have been switched and I asked why and did not get a response. I also asked shouldn’t I be notified if a change was happening similiar to the initial notification when the smart meter was installed? Again no response.

We all need to voice our concerns and start sending letters to McGuinty, Brad Duguid (Ministry of Energy) and the Ontario Ombudsman, Andre Marin – apparently his office is monitoring the smart meter issues. If you have your old bills – place the facts on a spreadsheet so that the issues is very apparent and send copies of all your bills.

By: Lauramacdonell

Lauramacdonell — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:52:00 +0000

hydro isa drug it addict us were u think u need it. we don.t our grand parent did not have. we can go with out. turn it all off.