Category Archives: Natural Gas Utility Regulation and Commodity Deregulation

(December 8, 2000) Natural gas prices are going through the roof this winter, creating increases of $500 or $600 in the annual bills for many typical households and a $25-billion hit to Canada’s manufacturing industry. Continue reading →

(January 25, 1998) The following remarks are in response to your letter of December 19, 1998 about the Ontario Energy Board’s “Advisory Report to the Minister of Energy, Science and Technology on Legislative Change Requirements for Natural Gas Deregulation”. Continue reading →

(November 1, 1996) After filing Energy Probe’s meter reading evidence in the Consumers Gas 1997 rates case before the Ontario Energy Board, Consumers Gas agreed, during the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process prior to the hearing, to reduce its 1997 meter reading budget by $500,000 or about 7%. Continue reading →

(April 1, 1996) AND IN THE MATTER OF an Application by The Consumers’ Gas Company Ltd. for an order or orders approving rates to be charged for the sale, distribution, transmission and storage of gas for its 1997 fiscal year. Continue reading →

(February 19, 1996) After 10 years of success with deregulation of gas, provincial regulators of gas local distribution companies (LDCs) should finish the job. The road forward is to fully deregulate that which can be competitive. Continue reading →

(January 31, 1996) Ontario’s gas local distribution companies (LDCs) and their regulator, which have together done a very good job of serving their customers and the public interest, must make a break with the status quo and embrace further commodity purchase deregulation. Continue reading →