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Dunedin City Council – Kaunihera-a-rohe o Otepoti

Aurora Submission

Submission

Which option do you prefer?
Option Two – The alternative option – Keep Aurora Energy

Further comment
• Aurora belongs as an essential not-for-profit service, not as a business or sold to become be a privatised monopoly. • Dividends should not be paid to the council. • Under private ownership, the priority would be returns to shareholders, resulting in higher costs to consumers. Most of these returns would leave our region. • If Aurora was sold, the maintenance costs will still exist and will be shifted from rate payers to consumers. • Our most vulnerable members of our community will be affected the most with higher electricity costs. How does this fit into Dunedin City’s Portrait? • Even though electricity distribution is a regulated industry there are always unintended consequences with government regulation. • Past returns are not an indicator of future returns in investments funds. The economic growth model becoming unsustainable in a world with finite resources.

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Submitter

Submission id number: 1045689

Submitter name:
Andrea Foley

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