Letters Letters - General The cost of Prosperity to the tax payer
The cost of Prosperity to the tax payer
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Dear Sir/Madam:
If the mine goes ahead, it will cost you – The Tax Payer – a bundle!
The mine operation would require millions of kilowatt hours of electric power, which Taseko figures they would buy from B.C. "Hydro for less than 4 cents per Kilowatt hour," says Dr. Marvin Shaffer, in The Shaffer Report.
This afternoon I was informed by the B.C. Hydro Power Smart Information Centre, that B.C. Hydro residential customers pay an average of 8 cents per Kilowatt hour (basic charges included).
Dr. Shaffer says that, currently, B.C. Hydro buys power for their customers for nearly 9 cents per Kilowatt hour. You do the math. Apparently the difference amounts to more that $35 Million Dollars per year! Where will that necessary subsidy come from? From you, the Tax Payer, of course. Who else? Actually, it may be a lot more when the cost per Kilowatt hour surpasses 10 cents.
In addition, to top things off, there is the cost of carbon emissions, road repairs, transmission line costs, etc. Quite a price tag when you add it all up!
But hey, those of us who have jobs can afford to pay the extra taxes to support Prosperity! Right?
John Bos
Williams Lake, BC
Retired B.C. Hydro Power Smart employee
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