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Energy
Regulation bogeyman not driving up electricity costs
Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012Last year, amid sobering news concerning likely steep increases in provincial electricity bills, the Electricity Distributors Association (EDA) of Ontario, representing 76 municipal electricity distributors (EDCs) found a new bogeymen to blame for the gloomy prognosis.
PIAC asks Hon. Brad Duguid to reconsider Ontario energy rate hike decision
Thursday, Sep 30, 2010In a letter to the Hon. Brad Duguid the Public Interest Advocacy Centre asked for a reconsideration of a key energy rate decision. The Ontario Energy Board decision (EB 2009-0084) establishing rates of return on equity for public and private utilities is flawed Michael Janigan, PIAC executive director wrote on Sept. 27. Janigan, who represented the Vulnerable Energy Consumers Coalition at the ...
Ontario Energy Board Stakeholder Conference this week to tackle request for big rate increases
Sunday, Sep 20, 2009(PIAC 12/09/09)—This week, an Ontario Energy Board panel will study the request of Ontario’s natural gas and electricity distribution companies for higher rates to compensate their public and private ownership with a bigger return on investment. The request comes about as a result of the economic downturn and may mean that energy customers in Ontario could see rate increases to cover ...
Ontario Natural Gas Customers to Pay $100 Million More Annually to Texas-based Owner of Union Gas
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008(Ottawa—16/04/08)— In a one sentence decision issued late yesterday, the Ontario Cabinet rejected an appeal by consumer groups, representing residential and industrial natural gas customers, of the May 22, 2007 Ontario Energy Board (OEB) decision confirming the deregulation of the natural gas storage industry in Ontario. The decision means Enbridge Gas customers, after a ...
Media Release: Union Gas Gobbles Up Ontario Storage Competitors
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007For Immediate Release November 29, 2007 Recent announcements by Texas-based multinational corporation, Spectra Energy Inc., owner of Union Gas Limited, reveal that it intends to gobble up what little competition it currently faces from Ontario storage providers. The gas pools of Midway Petroleum Company located in Sarnia, Ontario as well as a controlling interest in storage gas pools to be ...