When I saw the WV Public Service Commission ruling on Tomlinson PSD and the Newell Companies request for a waiver to bypass the advertisement of a rate increase (which provides for a public hearing if requested by a consumer), I was stunned….then angry. Why would a public utility not want to make every effort to let their customers know a rate increase was in the works,,,,especially one that is 40 percent? The wisdom of the Public Service Commission in denying that request means that a legal advertisement will run in a qualified print paper and consumers have 30 days to request a public hearing. I question the attorney fees involved in trying to get that waiver drawn up and passed by the PSC and I question the thinking of the Tomlinson and Newell boards in not wanting to make every effort to make those who will probably incur that rate increase aware of the situation.
CITIZENS NEED TO KNOW by Tamara Pettit
