{"id":15418,"date":"2011-11-23T09:23:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T14:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15418"},"modified":"2011-11-23T10:06:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:06:08","slug":"emera-under-investigation-for-consumer-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/emera-under-investigation-for-consumer-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Emera Under Investigation For Consumer Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15154\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15154\" title=\"Emera, Grand bahama Power Company\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gbpc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gbpc.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gbpc-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emera-acquired Grand Bahama Power Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As reported, in early November a group known as Operation Justice Bahamas visited Halifax on a fact-finding mission. They wanted to ascertain whether Nova Scotians, beholden to Nova Scotia Power&#8217;s coal stacks, were feeling as much of a pinch on their monthly power bills as were residents of the island of Grand Bahama. Emera recently purchased the Grand Bahama Power Corporation, and amidst allegations of fraud, \u201cguess-timation\u201d on power bills, and random surcharges in power that destroy appliances, it has not quite endeared itself to the locals.<\/p>\n<p>On November 16th, members of Operation Justice Bahamas presented a formal complaint against Emera to the Bahamian Prime Minister&#8217;s office and the Bahamian Consumer Protection Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Justice Bahamas brought a formal complaint against Emera to the Prime Minister&#8217;s office and the Bahamian Consumer Protection Commission, which is legally obliged to conduct an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[81,212],"class_list":["post-15418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-grand-bahama","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}