Nationalise the Utilities
Support for campaign unsettles NIE
Written by Daniel Waldron Monday, 01 February 2010 15:29
Nationalise the Utilities Campaign received a letter from NIE challenging a leaflet of the campaign. Below is the response of the campaign and the initial letter from NIE.
Nationalise the Utilities Campaign
Written by Paddy Meehan Monday, 01 February 2010 15:16
Re-nationalise NIE
How many of you as NIE customers realise that you are paying for a £24million computer and administrative system that is lying idle?
By Warren McCullough
The quango that is the Utility Regulator set this system up two years ago to create a domestic electricity market in Northern Ireland, supposedly to introduce ‘competition’. The cost of this farce is being shouldered by households who are paying around £100 more than they were at this time last year.
Socialist Party calls for nationalisation of energy companies
Written by Paddy Meehan Monday, 01 February 2010 00:00
Press Release - 10th September 2008
‘If the Government can spend billions bailing out the banks, they can bail out hard-pressed families by taking control of the energy sector’ – Peter Hadden
The Socialist Party has called on the Government to nationalise Phoenix Gas and Northern Ireland Electricity in response to “the completely unjustifiable price increases, which are solely designed to protect the profits of these monopolies.”
