{"id":13032,"date":"2012-01-12T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13032"},"modified":"2012-01-12T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:05:04","slug":"toronto-hydro-takes-hostages-threatens-eternal-darkness-if-demands-not-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/toronto-hydro-takes-hostages-threatens-eternal-darkness-if-demands-not-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Hydro takes hostages, threatens eternal darkness if demands not met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, it must be the time of year for <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2012\/01\/12\/toronto-hydros-pr-plan-give-us-cash-or-we-fire-everyone-and-the-city-goes-dark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Hydro<\/a> to lose its collective shit and start the crazy talk:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last week, the Ontario Energy Board denied Toronto Hydro\u2019s request for a rate hike for homes within the city limits. The hike, which would have meant a monthly increase of five dollars for a typical household, was necessary, Toronto Hydro said, to renew the city\u2019s electrical transmission grid. Failure to do so, they warned, could result in more, and longer, blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>Not so, the Energy Board ruled. They said that Toronto Hydro had not demonstrated that Toronto\u2019s power grid needed the kind of urgent repairs that were being proposed, and also chided Toronto Hydro for failing to make necessary productivity gains, implying that the requested money was not so much about urgent repairs as needing more cash. Toronto Hydro\u2019s response has been swift: 700 contractors have been let go, and 20% of its workforce is being told that they\u2019re next &mdash; that\u2019s another 350 or so jobs. Oh, and without the cash, the city is probably going to go dark.<\/p>\n<p>Do these guys know how to play hardball or what?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, it must be the time of year for Toronto Hydro to lose its collective shit and start the crazy talk: Last week, the Ontario Energy Board denied Toronto Hydro\u2019s request for a rate hike for homes within the city limits. The hike, which would have meant a monthly increase of five dollars for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[497,87,207,392],"class_list":["post-13032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-electricity","tag-ontario","tag-toronto","tag-unions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3oc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13033,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032\/revisions\/13033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}