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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 2:21 AM EDT




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National Grid looking for 5.5 percent rate hike
Many Attleboro area residents could soon be paying more for electricity.

National Grid, which supplies power to Attleboro, Foxboro, Norton, Plainville, Rehoboth, Seekonk and Wrentham, wants to raise rates that would result in a 5.5 percent increase in the typical residential customer's monthly bill.

The largest electric utility in Massachusetts wants to use the extra $111 million in revenue to upgrade its electrical distribution system and cover a large amount of unpaid customers bills.

AG Coakley opposes hike

Attorney General Martha Coakley opposes the hike, calling them "excessive and harmful" to customers. The state Department of Public Utilities is hosting a series of public hearings this week on proposed rate hikes.

The first public hearing is this evening at Nantucket High School. Subsequent hearings will be held in Worcester, Andover, Quincy and North Adams.
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ButchDuctTape wrote on Jul 7, 2009 6:52 PM:

" Burn the Fossil Fuels!!!

Heat your water with oil. Heat your food with gas.

The most bloated department in the Hock is this joke of a farce of a shamrockerie. ;) "

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s-plumb wrote on Jul 7, 2009 10:02 AM:

" The Cap and Trade/ Energy Bill is addressed at http://thesunchronicle.ning.com/forum/topics/we-need-to-help-save-our
Other issues regarding our nations future are also presentedand should be discussed. Feel free to post the pros and cons, or any opinion you have. Some of this will be irreversable, so it's time to get involved. "

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1333 wrote on Jul 7, 2009 9:38 AM:

" Will you guys pay my bills to? THANKS!! "

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curmudgeon wrote on Jul 7, 2009 9:00 AM:

" Of course rates will rise, not only with National Grid, but with all pole based (delivered) utilities now that communities have the power to tax the poles and associated equipment. Those local tax assessments on them will be passed on to the rate payers. All that before the Cap and Trade expenses kick-in to further kick the rate payer.

Thank you Democrats! "

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anavoter wrote on Jul 7, 2009 8:49 AM:

" IF you think rates are high now, wait till the Obama carbon taxes associated with the recently passed energy bill start coming in the next few years. "

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S-PLUMB wrote on Jul 7, 2009 8:13 AM:

" Remember, this has nothing to do with the energy bill that must be stopped.

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."- Barack Obama Jan 08 "

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kevin h. wrote on Jul 7, 2009 7:59 AM:

" spelling error "Too small to fail." "

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kevin h. wrote on Jul 7, 2009 7:59 AM:

" "The largest electric utility in Massachusetts wants to use the extra $111 million in revenue ... and cover a large amount of unpaid customers bills."

0back is already taking my money to cover people who don't pay their mortgages, big car companies who gave too much to union extortion and giant financial companies that can't run their finances. Now I have to pay for those who won't pay their electric bill??? What a pack of scumbags. This is only teaching people to do whatever they want, someone else will pick up the tab.

What, am I to small to fail?? "

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shelbysdad wrote on Jul 7, 2009 6:31 AM:

" It's just like Comcast raising their rates on a yearly basis. When you are a monopoly you can do these things whenever you want to raise the bottom line. In this age, we're lucky to even be employed and I'd love to even get a raise let alone a 5.5% one. "

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s-plumb wrote on Jul 7, 2009 5:14 AM:

" This increase is peanuts compared to the fees associated with those being considered in Washington. "

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