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The need for change. Now!
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Posted on Sep 10 2008
I wish we, the people of Tinian, could join Ed Propst and all those concerned American citizens who will be joining him at Fishing Base next week Wednesday to protest the misadministration of CUC. Unfortunately, we, the people, don’t receive an unauditable allowance from the General Fund to pay our ticket to Saipan.
We, the people of Tinian, were made aware at a public hearing held here a year ago by CUC that the new power rate schedule created by CUC would be one rate for one Marianas. That means when our legislators approved the Aggreko deal, they voted to include the people of Tinian in paying for the $500,000-a-month addition to our power bills, even though the cost of fixing the power system on Saipan has nothing to do with the cost of power on Tinian. Our illustrious legislators could have insisted that if they were to agree to the Aggreko deal for the sake of the people of Saipan, then Saipan would agree to take the excess 10 megawatts of power produced by the Tinian Telesource power plant and cut us free from CUC. But they did not. What they did was (surprise, surprise) nothing.
The Tinian Legislative Delegation has had the opportunity to introduce legislation to separate us from CUC and create the TUC for the last year. If they did so, our cost of electricity would be reduced to between 25-30 cents per kilowatt hour, perhaps saving some of our private businesses that are on the brink of disaster and providing more affordable electricity for all the common people who don’t get an unauditable extra 60 grand a year to pay their power bills. However, that would require them to actually work.
Thank you, Ed, for all your work on behalf of the people of the CNMI. I wish more of the Legislature would wake up and realize that we, the common people of the CNMI, want change now. We don’t want to wait another 15 months to take out the trash.
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Don Farrell[/B]
[I]Marpo Heights, Tinian[/I]
