Fr fr

They've got a head start on all the microplastics too

If it makes you mad it's all worth it

planning dept gives a shot but Smiley has explicitly instructed them to stop thinking about it

you misspelled completely razed and replaced with urban fabric

The only time I ever hear about Rhody Craft its them opposing some pedestrian or cyclist safety improvement.

​

Weird marketing on their part

Turn out to oppose RIDOT head Alviti's reappointment (they haven't shoved is date yet they're trying to fly it under the radar in the finance committee).

Get involved with the Providence Streets Coalition maybe?

We could do a big die-in at city hall and try and cyber bully the mayor?

A dramatic letter writing campaign like miracle on 34th Street? I volunteer to dump the letters at city hall.

But IRL call your city councilor and your state reps.

Cool that he let us know right away he doesn't give a shit about us

And Smith street where the judge was hit last night

they requested an increase in their ROE, and got it. Its up over 10% now, maybe 11% IIRC. The cost of the actual utilities, gas and electricity, are pass-throughs, PPL does no generation. The only prices they control are via their ROE which they have to request from the PUC every 3-8 years. They're locked in for the next 3 years, but it would have been not unreasonable whatsoever to tell the company to swallow some profit margin to offset current high pass-through prices but the PUC is entirely made up of former NatGrid beancounters so why would they ever do that? They're paying off their own purchase via that 11% profit margin and you bet your ass in 2025 they'll be back asking for 12 or 13.

​

man why weren't you at the hearing?

It's one thing if we had no say but the public utilities commission could literally have said no! That's part of the deal for running a statewide monopoly!

Yep it should all be in the minutes. But then why would we approve it? Our service has not improved, efficiencies have not improved, there was no benefit for the end user except a rate hike so two companies could trade the state like a pokemon card. We could have just said no! Literally no reason to approve it. We get a rate hike (which they also approved!) and nothing else!

Sure,

Spot enforcement makes no difference when the fundamental problem is not just systemic but is actually the status quo.

Whack -a-mole won't address a damn thing when the powers that be are just going to turn around and give the exact same "deal" to someone else. Every single development apparently needs (and gets) a variance and a tax break, so clearly the tax and code systems are fucked (which they are). If every building needs a sweetheart deal then it's hardly reasonable to fault them for getting one. But it's very reasonable to fault the city and the state for setting up a system where nothing is built by right and everything is at the personal digression of the mayor. That's the fucking problem

In the hearing the AG (or the public utilities commission i can't remember which one) asked how they (PPL) were planning on financing the cost of the acquisition and they said very bluntly they planned on paying for it by recouping that cost from ratepayers.

No new sources of income or anything, just raise margin on customers and use that profit to pay off the purchase.

So even absent the increase in raw gas and electric costs we were going to get a 40% increase (IIRC) in their off-the-top add on charges just for the luxury of a name change basically

They do it that way on purpose! Don't let them get away with it!!

Yeah dude in the middle of nowhere in Warwick too.

I took a half day, and took the bus, cause I knew it was gonna cost me a lot more than 4 hours lost wages in the long run.

Though jokes on me, it still went through so I'm out the 4 hours and the price gouging.

They were super brazen about passing the costs of the sale 100% on to us to they didn't even pretend otherwise it was bullshit

half kidding, of course.

Fight for a people's power utility or they're gonna keep screwing us like this

This is why I gave testimony to oppose the sale of Narragansett Electric to PPL over a year ago but none of you all came out and backed me up!

My take is sure why the hell not?

The tax breaks are bullshit but we're up to our eyeballs in that bullshit, blocking this to fight tax breaks is using a tiki drink umbrella to stop the rain