Maybe SJ Energy should acquire city

I read a great article in Opinion section of today’s TJ:

Instead of the mayor and councillors looking into the ownership of Saint John Energy, maybe it should be the other way around. Let Saint John Energy determine the ownership of old Saint John, acquire it and get us into the black for a change.

Don’t think for one minute that the city fathers have any intention of doing any favours. They just want to destroy something that appears to be working too well in order to pay off some of their ever-increasing debt. Let’s not let this happen.

There are too many horror stories from places that have “sold off” their electrical providers only to be shafted by the new buyer with exorbitant energy rates and poor service.

Let’s fall back and regroup on this one. And while you and your provincial counterparts are tramping around in the same market, selling off electrical independence, get them on board with the proper decision too.

JOHN MacDONALD

Saint John