EDMONTON – Edmonton residents can expect sewer and garbage fees to rise $60 in 2014 and keep going up at the same rate for the following two years, new reports say.
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EDMONTON – Edmonton residents can expect sewer and garbage fees to rise $60 in 2014 and keep going up at the same rate for the following two years, new reports say.
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EDMONTON – Edmonton’s Epcor Utilities earned $57 million on revenues of $453 million for the first three months of 2013 — a big improvement over its profit of $44 million on revenues of $500 million for the same period last year.
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A farm owner in central Alberta says he cannot make sense of his January gas bill and can’t convince anyone he was overcharged by thousands of dollars.
“I couldn’t believe when I saw the $3,789 bill,” said Sid Morris. “That was $45.26 higher than my entire bill the previous year.”
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A $357,000 bombshell was dropped on city councillors at last week’s regular council meeting.
It came out in the council meeting that due to the development of new housing, there was a $357,000 discrepancy between what residents’ solid waste bills had covered, and what the contractor responsible for disposing of the waste required in payment.
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Calmar council has decided to defer a decision on establishing an organics recycling program in the town.
Council members voted at the Tuesday, Apr. 2 meeting to wait to establish such a program – which would collect organic waste, such as grass clippings and kitchen scraps – until they had a better idea of whether or not it would be supported and used by residents.
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Council gave approval to the move Monday night, meaning around 32,000 gas, water and electric accounts will be shifted to the new system over the next few years
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Brookes Wallace did not get the mid-winter blues and install and fill a swimming pool at the half-duplex she owns — but she is facing a water bill suggesting she did something of the sort.
The Lacombe resident could not believe her eyes a few weeks ago when her monthly water bill showed her owing $1,028, a 12-fold increase on the average charge of the residence where her two tenants live.
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Would residents rather pay less in property taxes and more on their utility bills or maintain the status quo?
We’ll never know the answer as city councillors voted Monday to simply keep things the way they are without studying the issue of franchise fees further. Sitting as the standing committee on finance, councillors also had the option of hiking the franchise fees charged for natural gas and electricity or discussing a new policy to do so.
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The cost of constructing transmission lines will more than double the transmission charges on residential electricity bills and could drive some commercial and industrial users out of the province, says a report prepared for the Alberta Utilities Commission.
The report by the industry experts on a transmission cost recovery subcommittee warns that transmission “wire” costs are forecast to increase from $14 per megawatt-hour in 2011 to about $32 by 2018.
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EDMONTON — The Alberta government moved today to reduce the volatility of retail power prices and bolster consumer advocacy as Energy Minister Ken Hughes released a long overdue report on the province’s deregulated retail electricity market.
Hughes, who received a 391-page expert report called Power for the People last September, announced his government is lengthening the period over which electricity is purchased for Alberta consumers on the default rate.
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