Pubdate: Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Source: Grand Forks Gazette (CN BC)
Copyright: 2011 Black Press
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/525
Author: Yolanda Lora Vilchis

SHAME ON POWER THIEVES

Editor:

I find it quite upsetting that BC Hydro is losing $154 million a year
to electricity theft due to marijuana grow operations.

This loss of revenue is reportedly adding five per cent to everyone's
hydro bills; yours, mine and the legitimate businesses operating in
our communities. However, it occurs to me that if the cost of the
electricity being stolen each year is $154 million, then the total
cost of electricity theft must be even greater when you factor in the
cost of tracking down the theft and the thieves and repairing the
damage they've done along the way.

Every honest, decent citizen, and particularly those making sincere
efforts to conserve electricity and be "Power Smart," should be
outraged by electricity theft. I strongly encourage BC Hydro to take
whatever steps needed to stamp out these power thieves and make sure
our power is used appropriately and, above all else, paid for.

Yolanda Lora Vilchis

Surrey, B.C.
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MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr.