Voice of Real Poverty is calling for the 3 per cent increase instituted by NB Power last month to be rolled back. Bethany Thorne Dykstra from Voice of Real Poverty was one of the interveners who opposed the rate hike at a hearing held in the city last month.
But the Vice-President of Finance at NB Power, Darren Murphy tells CHSJ News the Energy and Utilities Board didn't state the rate increase was unneccessary which he maintains it was.
Murphy says if the E-U-B needs the whole ball fo wax then the various branches of NB Power should be reintegrated into one. It will be up to Provincial Energy Minister Jack Keir whether the increase is rolled back.
