{"id":34078,"date":"2023-02-03T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=34078"},"modified":"2023-02-03T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:16:11","slug":"churchill-issues-statement-on-uarb-power-rate-hike-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=34078","title":{"rendered":"Churchill issues statement on UARB power rate hike decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=169&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>From a press release<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> The following is a statement issued by N.S. Liberal Leader Zach Churchill in a release sent to media on Feb. 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Although today\u2019s UARB decision was made in consultation with affordability and environmental experts, the Houston government has suggested in the past that they would interfere in the independent process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Punting the problems of today down the road for tomorrow should not be an option.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;192&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nova Scotians deserve reliable power they can afford, and Premier Houston\u2019s interference will jeopardize that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With the rising cost of living, the Houston government should be focused on providing targeted, direct relief for Nova Scotians instead of interfering in the energy market in a way that will cost Nova Scotians more down the road and make our power grid less reliable.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;] [adrotate banner=169&#8243;] From a press release HALIFAX: The following is a statement issued by N.S. Liberal Leader Zach Churchill in a release sent to media on Feb. 2. &#8220;Although today\u2019s UARB decision was made in consultation with affordability and environmental experts, the Houston government has suggested in the past that they would interfere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[50,121,4559,4560,1119],"class_list":["post-34078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-halifax","tag-hrm","tag-n-s-liberal-leader-zach-churchill","tag-power-rate-hike","tag-uarb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}