Who Pays for the Bristol Harbour Festival? Answer: We Pay £208,000

bristol | corporations | feature Friday September 12, 2008 10:53 by imcvol

As Energy Bills Rocket, Tough Questions Are Asked...Updated!

The Bristol Blogger adds; Answers in! [from a Freedom of Information Request] Note how the overall cost of the festival has more than doubled since 2004, when council taxpayers were putting in less than £80k. Now in 2008 we're paying £208,000, two and a half times more. Amazing what they can find money for isn't it? ...

As the huge rises in energy bills makes the headlines, Skint wrote; On the face of it we Bristolians get 3 nights/2 days of free entertainment at a number of locations around the city centre. Much is made of the fact this is the largest ‘free’ city centre festival across the south west, with the accent on ‘free’, and the implication that ‘we’ are getting something for nothing. Oh yeah? But we all know that these days nothing really comes for free, don’t we? The event is sponsored by a number of commercial operations, the most ‘generous’ being EDF, the French owned power company, who pump so much money into it that its now called ‘The EDF Energy Bristol Harbour Festival 2008’. What a kind and caring bunch eh? But then they can afford it, after all in 2007 they made $8.27billion net profit. And to ensure they keep making a profit, they have just announced price rises for gas & electric use to be paid by you, dear reader – 17% for electricity & 22% for gas. So really EDF aren’t paying for the festival at all, we are, through our fuel bills, but we don’t see our names up on the banner headline do we? Full article & comments.

| EDF - profiting from you | EDF customers face higher bills (BBC) | Cost of EDF Energy Harbour Festival (whatdotheyknow.com) | thebristolblogger.wordpress.com/ | Our response to EDF Energy's announcement of gas and electricity price rises (Age Concern) | The Permanent Energy Crisis Hits Home (tomdispatch.com) |

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