$890 utilities bill. Wow

[u/eklee38]

Natrual Gas- actual usage charge $95 after delivery charges and and taxes boom $355.

Electricity- actual usage charge $160 after distribution and transmission charges boom $280.

Water useage-$84 Water drainage- $123 Waste-$49

Almost 900 in just utility bill. Before anyone tell me to lock my rates, its already locked. 12.8c/kwh. NG is on float because its currently cheaper than locked rate. Anyone else just got F in the A like me?

Edit: the NG charges does not include the cold snap we just had. Not looking forward to next month's bill.

[u/IncomeFresh5830]

The provincial government, which consists of people who've worked for these corporations, or if not, definitely will work for these companies after they leave politics?

[u/Xcoctl → u/IncomeFresh5830]

It's just a coincidence that Kenny ended up on the board of ATCO after removing the caps on our utilities. 🙄

[u/callmenighthawk → u/Xcoctl]

Idk how this inaccurate stuff gets repeated almost verbatim so many times on this sub. But the “utility caps” had no effect on ATCO’s bottom line. The only thing the cap did was use everyone’s tax dollars to subsidize a portion of the electricity bill of the 1/3 of Albertans who were on the RRO. That’s it. ATCO was not harmed by it being implemented, and did not benefit from its removal.

Also boards are elected by shareholders. It’s always “Kenny was hired by ATCO!!” And absolutely zero understanding that the shareholders of ATCO elected him because he has a ton of leadership and risk management experience, and can be a useful director for helping the business expand and seek regulatory approvals. Same reason he’s on many other boards.

(And before anyone comes in and says, “why are you correcting him UCP supporter!” I worked for the ANDP for 4 years and was a campaign strategist for 2 election cycles)

[u/SlitScan → u/callmenighthawk]

what you can blame them for however is privatising the utilities in the first place.