{"id":12789,"date":"2011-10-09T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12789"},"modified":"2011-10-09T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T13:37:23","slug":"emera%e2%80%99s-caribbean-subsidiary-slammed-for-power-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/emera%e2%80%99s-caribbean-subsidiary-slammed-for-power-charges","title":{"rendered":"Emera\u2019s Caribbean Subsidiary Slammed For Power Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emera Inc.\u2019s Caribbean subsidiary is under fire for overcharging  electricity users on Grand Bahama Island, even as the company has  reportedly given back millions of dollars to large industrial users.<\/p>\n<p>A Bahamian newspaper, the Tribune, reported Friday that the Grand  Bahama Power Co. had reimbursed several major business and industrial  users &#8220;in excess of $5.5 million&#8221; for overbilling them for &#8220;at least  seven years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an open letter to Sarah MacDonald, the president and chief  executive of Grand Bahama Power, lawyer Gregory Moss said Polymers  International, the Bahama Rock mining firm, the Pelican Bay resort and  the Grand Bahama Shipyard were among the commercial clients being  reimbursed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emera Inc.\u2019s Caribbean subsidiary is under fire for overcharging electricity users on Grand Bahama Island, even as the company has reportedly given back millions of dollars to large industrial users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-12789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-grand-bahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}