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Its also over priced, like all of their services.

Their TV service is not the best. Constant trouble with some channels.

While you can only sit at the computer for a few minutes a day ****. do you think in your dreams that I dont know the wind blows up north where you came from? You got caught blowing smoke. Now do your homework and get back to us.

They got a real scare last year when the man went out and got the required signatures on a petition and they had to put him on the ballot. The scare was short lived as Bremco counts the votes.

Ocm tell us how bremco buys its power, such as by the day, week etc...

Nice try. But you've never had all the facts to begin with. How come you don't want to address the got rigging? Come on, what wrong? Didn't anyone give you an answer for that?

Fins (view profile)	Posted 12:09 pm, 10/21/2014
You are a good little soldier that does exactly what they are told and doesn't ask question. And one thing that shouldn't be done, is they shouldn't rig the board elections so that no matter what, only their picks can win. But you wouldn't understand that, because you can't think on your own. You only do as told

Boo hoo, the board election is rigged. Boo hoo, they should not do that. Welcome to the American Way Fins.

Fins	Posted 12:09 pm, 10/21/2014
You are a good little soldier that does exactly what they are told and doesn't ask question. And one thing that shouldn't be done, is they shouldn't rig the board elections so that no matter what, only their picks can win. But you wouldn't understand that, because you can't think on your own. You only do as told

You lose every debate you get into to with me, then you resort to name calling. Get your facts first or don't play.

You are a good little soldier that does exactly what they are told and doesn't ask question.

And one thing that shouldn't be done, is they shouldn't rig the board elections so that no matter what, only their picks can win. But you wouldn't understand that, because you can't think on your own. You only do as told

Fins (view profile)

Posted 11:39 am, 10/21/2014

Wow, you really were a perfect government employee weren't you? Don't question spending. D don't worry about doing what is right if the majority of the public doesn't say anything. Well, the majority of the public is like trukin Timmi. They don't have a clue. I don't care how other places do it. That's also not a justification for doing it wrong. You must have made some board so happy with your perfect goose stepping and following all orders.

Goose stepping? So now you are resorting to calling me a Nazi? I guess I should expect no less from you. I once had a moron call me a Nazi and a Communist at the same meeting - are you related to him?

Tell us Fins, what is "right"? Should a corporate board open itself up to any ole moron that wants to run for the board? Is your real problem that you think the CEO and a few officers are overpaid?

That's the real problem isn't it? Why don't you and your ilk just call and harass the Board members non-stop instead of just *****ing to the wind? Have they blocked your telephone number? If you want to live in a "Democracy" you need to move to one of the Scandinavian countries. America is not a Democracy, it's a Republic and a corporate Republic at that.

Maybe you would like Finland, or Sweden, or Denmark?

Wow, you really were a perfect government employee weren't you? Don't question spending. D don't worry about doing what is right if the majority of the public doesn't say anything.

Well, the majority of the public is like trukin Timmi. They don't have a clue. I don't care how other places do it. That's also not a justification for doing it wrong. You must have made some board so happy with your perfect goose stepping and following all orders.

Fins (view profile)

Posted 11:10 am, 10/21/2014

Hey ****, I know very well what I am talking about. And if you knew half of what you think you know, you would know that Bremco has been an issue that has angered people for decades. But they have kept their board wrapped up so the community they serve has no say so. Maybe you need to pack up and go back to the wonderful municipality that you served where money grew on trees and no one cared that you threw it away at every whim

Great example of being a blowhard.

Do me a favor and tells us all about an open and transparent co-op, that has open and fair board elections. I will not hold my breath. I can't wait to hear what local bank, electric co-op, telephone co-op, insurance co-op, or hospital have an open and transparent board election. Maybe you can find that with some local arts council, but I doubt it.

And where are these angry people? Are they anywhere but at a local free coffee restaurant *****ing and moaning? What have they actually done over the past decades to address their grievance? Why are they so unsuccessful with the battle with the windmill? Perhaps the reason is that not as many people really share their feelings? Perhaps the circle of those who complain is so insular they don't know what the public really thinks or if the public cares.

What's your platform to "reform BREMCO or Skyline" ?

Hey ****, I know very well what I am talking about. And if you knew half of what you think you know, you would know that Bremco has been an issue that has angered people for decades. But they have kept their board wrapped up so the community they serve has no say so. Maybe you need to pack up and go back to the wonderful municipality that you served where money grew on trees and no one cared that you threw it away at every whim

underdog2 (view profile)

Posted 6:19 pm, 10/20/2014

Ocm you spewed more crap than a ten cent preacher on a street corner. No wonder you are unemployed. Bremco employees know when they take the job they will be out working in adverse conditions. Duke power employees know when they take the job they too will be out in adverse conditions. Ocm do you think that bremco are the only ones that work in snow and cold? They do up north each and every day. Listening to your street preaching one that believed your crap would see no need in having a bremco or skyline board. Since they are so honest there is no need to have a utilities commission either. I see you know nothing about markets either.

Dog, are you so ignorant as to not understand the weather condition that is difficult here is not cold or snow but high winds? it's easy to ***** and moan when you know nothing about the realty of high bucket work. BREMCO regularly works in winds much higher than what flat land utilities staff work. Wind is what gets you killed in the bucket, not electricity, cold, or snow.

And what do you think the Utilities Commission actually does other than rubber stamp rate hikes by Duke, Dominion, etc.?

Both you and fins are *****ing about something you really know little about. If you don't like BREMCO, install solar panels and a generator and cut yourself off from the grid. It's as if neither of you understand the nature or the governance of a corporation. The corporation is it's own entity, at best you own stock, at worst you take what they are willing to sell you. The corporation plays favorites, rewards its friends, sticks it to its enemies, what is your expectation - Democracy and transparency in an American corporation? I would think you two are old enough not to be Pollyannas.

But keep tilting with the windmill Don.

Let me retract that apology, that was for Fins.

Hey Fins, next time you call someone a liar, know your ****. ;)

Sorry Fins, I meant that last post for dog.

Fins - you know nothing about NC Electric Law. There is intense competition between Cities, Town, Co-Ops and Duke, Formerly CP&:L, and Dominion where the territories meet, and overlap due to the presence of lines prior to 1965. If you had any experience about anything outside rural, northwest North Carolina, you would not look so stupid when you make claims about things you really know nothing about.

If you had ever been outside the County you might even know that.

Everytime you come here you post generalities and innuendo without any citations, facts, or proof of anything. You are just blowhard.

160A-332. Electric service within city limits.

(a) The suppliers of electric service inside the corporate limits of any city in which a secondary supplier was furnishing electric service on the determination date (as defined in G.S. 160A-331(1)) shall have rights and be subject to restrictions as follows:

(1) The secondary supplier shall have the right to serve all premises being served by it, or to which any of its facilities are attached, on the determination date.

(2) The secondary supplier shall have the right, subject to subdivision (3) of this section, to serve all premises initially requiring electric service after the determination date which are located wholly within 300 feet of its lines and located wholly more than 300 feet from the lines of the primary supplier, as such suppliers' lines existed on the determination date.

(3) Any premises initially requiring electric service after the determination date which are located wholly within 300 feet of a secondary supplier's lines and wholly within 300 feet of another secondary supplier's lines, but wholly more than 300 feet from the primary supplier's lines, as the lines of all suppliers existed on the determination date, may be served by the secondary supplier which the consumer chooses, and no other supplier shall thereafter furnish electric service to such premises, except with the written consent of the supplier then serving the premises.

(4) A primary supplier shall not furnish electric service to any premises which a secondary supplier has the right to serve as set forth in subdivisions (1), (2), and (3) of this section, except with the written consent of the secondary supplier.

(5) Any premises initially requiring electric service after the determination date which are located wholly or partially within 300 feet of the primary supplier's lines and are located wholly or partially within 300 feet of the secondary supplier's lines, as such suppliers' lines existed on the determination date, may be served by either the secondary supplier or the primary supplier, whichever the consumer chooses, and no other supplier shall thereafter furnish service to such premises, except with the written consent of the supplier then serving the premises.

(6) Any premises initially requiring electric service after the determination date, which are located only partially within 300 feet of the secondary supplier's lines and are located wholly more than 300 feet from the primary supplier's lines, as such supplier's lines existed on the determination date, may be served either by the secondary supplier or the primary supplier, whichever the consumer chooses, and no other supplier shall thereafter furnish service to such premises, except with the written consent of the supplier then serving the premises.

(6a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a secondary supplier, upon obtaining the prior written consent of the city, shall be the exclusive provider of electric service within (i) any assigned area for which that secondary supplier had been assigned supplier prior to the determination date; or (ii) any area previously unassigned by the North Carolina Utilities Commission pursuant to G.S. 62-110.2. However, any rights of other electric suppliers existing under G.S. 62-110.2 prior to the determination date to provide service shall continue to exist without impairment in the areas described in (i) and (ii) above.

(6b) A primary supplier or secondary supplier that, after the determination date, offers to serve any premises initially requiring electric service for which a consumer has a right to choose suppliers under subsections (5) or (6) of this section, without providing the consumer written notice that the consumer may be entitled to choose another electric supplier for the premises, shall not have the right to serve those premises.

(7) Except as provided in subdivisions (1), (2), (3), (5), (6), and (6a) of this section, a secondary supplier shall not furnish electric service within the corporate limits of any city unless it first obtains the written consent of the city and the primary supplier.

(b) In any city that is first incorporated after April 20, 1965, in which, on the effective date of the incorporation, there is more than one supplier of electric service, all suppliers of electric service therein shall continue to have the rights and be subject to the restrictions in effect before the city was incorporated until there is a primary supplier within the city.

(c) It shall be unlawful for a primary supplier or secondary supplier to serve premises within a city that the supplier does not have the right to serve under the provisions of this Article. Upon receiving written notice from another supplier of electric service that has authority to lawfully provide service to the premises in dispute that the provision of service by the current supplier is unlawful, the primary supplier or secondary supplier that is providing electric service shall be obligated to discontinue service and remove all of its facilities used in the provision of the unlawful service within 30 days after substitute electric service can be provided by an electric supplier with authority to lawfully provide service to the premises, unless the supplier currently providing service has a good faith basis for believing it has authority to continue rendering such service. If the primary or secondary supplier is determined to be providing electric services unlawfully, and is found to have unreasonably failed to fulfill its obligation to discontinue service as required above, the supplier of electric service that has authority to lawfully provide service to the premises may bring an action to compel performance of those obligations, and may recover in that action its costs of enforcing this subsection, including its reasonable attorneys' fees. (1965, c. 287, s. 1; 1971, c. 698, s. 1; 1997-346, s. 2; 1999-111, s. 1; 2003-24, s. 1; 2005-150, ss. 4, 5.)

Same thing bremco did when they formed Blue ridge energies to sell propane. Now they buy up the competition in Independence oil and are now selling fuel. Profits dont come back to the members.

Yes it did. Skyline is the majority owner of Carolina west. They partnered with a couple other phone companies to do it. I think Wilkes telephone was one of the others.

And profits from Carolina west don't have to go back to the co-op members. That's why they also created Skybest as a seperate company

Didn't Carolina West spew from the SkyLine co-op ?

OCM, as for those co-ops you competed against (let's ignore for right now that is a lie since co-ops are protected monopolies and have no competition in their areas), how did they handle the proxy votes for their board elections?