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Libby Keenan’s Facebook rant over soaring hydro costs has prompted a face-to-face meeting with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne this Wednesday at Queen’s Park.

Keenan wrote Wynne an open letter on social media detailing the struggle to keep her Amherstburg horse farm financially afloat.

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She noted a recent hydro bill of almost $600, a sum four times higher than bills of previous years for Sunhall Equestrian Centre on the Concession 5.

“My heating and hydro costs are a much higher cost than my mortgage was,” she wrote while sipping her morning coffee on Jan. 6.

“I think my coffee rant to friends was a little too strong,” she said Monday. “Something in me that morning decided I’m going to fix Ontario Hydro.”

She was fuelled by news coverage of the $4-million annual compensation going to Hydro One CEO Mayo Schmidt.

Keenan quoted a song familiar to many school-aged children of a bygone era that goes, “Give me a place to stand and a place to grow and we will build Ontario.”