Calgary’s mayor wants to know what’s up with local access fees on energy bills and what can be done about them.
Wednesday morning, Mayor Jyoti Gondek said she wants city council to be briefed on the impacts of energy bill volatility and how changes to the fees could help Calgarians. Gondek wants council to learn about the history of local access fees, previous research on possible changes to the fees, what changes to the fees in the current energy environment could look like, possible impacts of fee changes to Calgarians and budget impacts to the city.“That benefits us as a corporation, but it’s crushing a lot of Calgarians. So we need to be having an open dialogue and very transparently explaining to Calgarians the decisions that we’re making.