vancityj
Member
when BC hydro shows up on your property, they ONLY have access to your meter. If they show up with two RC's in the car. Demand a search warrant, call your lawyer and the human rights commissioner. That's the little fishing scam they like to try and pull.
If you let them walk into your house without an actual search warrant in hand.... sorry to say, that's just plain stupid in this day and age.
I know many folks up here who have had that little black suv pull up their driveway and most have told them to fuck off or get sued for harassment and trespass. These are people who have never grown a plant in their lives.
BC hydro has access to the meter area of your property and that's it. The specifics of your use of power is none of their business unless you aren't paying your bill. Lastly, the presence of an rcmp member with a hydro employee does not give the hydro employee any more rights of trespass under the law. Nor does the mere presence of a police officer mean you have to let ANY of them on your property.
people who fall for this scam are just not using their heads.
In the case of the individual I mentioned, it was a city created bylaw allowing their EFSI inspectors, accompanied by two RC officers "for protection" (not in an investigative capacity; no criminal charges could be laid), to enter a dwelling within 48-hours to inspect any electrical system pulling more than 93-kwh's daily. No conspiracy theories, or black SUV's. I believe they've since discontinued the use of the RC inside the property line, but I think they still run the program. BC Hydro is obligated to give usage data to any municipality with a bylaw such as that in place.