Sentences with phrase «hydro bills»

We could have regulated places growing marijuana, if it was legal, that pay hydro bills, taxes and other expenses that relate to a business operation.

Since appliances account for 14 % of energy use and are the third biggest draw on hydro bills, this information should play a critical role in the selection of your new appliances.

IWTs MEAN HIGHER HYDRO BILLS FOR EVERYONE: • Wind energy will always be unreliable.

Countered PC leader Tim Hudak in a radio interview, «Higher hydro bills kill jobs.»

TORONTO — Ontario home owners, farmers and small businesses will get some relief from soaring electricity prices starting in January when the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax is removed from hydro bills.

The Hydro One Ombudsman Fiona Crean recently attended a meeting in Goderich, hosted by MPP Lisa Thompson where she heard a lot of stories from Ontario's farmers about hydro bills, and the government's electricity policies.

So an eight per cent reduction in hydro bill kicks in next month, with further unspecified relief to come.

It's also the most expensive season for most people as expenses go through the roof with needing winter tires and clothing for the family, holiday expenses, annual income taxes, and hydro bills skyrocketing.

Even so, the bargain hydro bills that Ontario residents once enjoyed aren't likely to ever return.

That Schmidt's salary represents only a few cents on the average hydro bill is immaterial.

Thousands of Canadian businesses are unwittingly paying hydro penalties which are, in most cases, buried in their monthly hydro bills...

While this 8 - plex currently relies on electric baseboard heating — an expensive way to heat, particularly with rising hydro prices — there's no urgent need for the new owner to spend money for upgrades because currently all the tenants pay their own hydro bills.

There's no social equity reason that low - income or middle class households should be subsidizing hydro bills for cottage owners or other high - income households in rural areas.

When the Premier made her announcement about reducing hydro bills, she also claimed «Decades of under - investment in the electricity system by governments of all stripes resulted in the need to invest more than $ 50 billion in generation, transmission and distribution assets to ensure the system is clean and reliable.»

In response to the growing public outrage of soaring hydro bills in Ontario, officials often try to downplay the crisis by comparing electricity rates in Toronto to other major cities in North America, particularly New York City.

Households across Ontario are finding it hard to keep up with these expenses, as exemplified by the $ 172.5 million in outstanding hydro bills, or the 60,000 homes that were disconnected last year for failing to pay.»

Adds Lange, the only Power Pledge we are making is to keeping hydro bills affordable, the number one access to jobs and increased productivity.

Appliances account for 14 % of energy use and are the third biggest draw on hydro bills.

Ontario election 2018 platform guide: Where the parties stand on everything from hydro bills to taxes to transit

I never had much luck with any such ideas; I spoke to my bank manager of the day about setting up a fund for seniors, perhaps living alone on fixed incomes, who couldn't pay their high hydro bills, offering to pay, again, anonymously but wanted to set up a special account, so then first I called hydro who said it would be against their policies to release anyone's need, and the bank manager didn't think it was a useful idea, not needed in the area (again).

«This is one in the list of things that we are doing to remove costs from the system, whether it's the suspension of the long - term energy plan, whether it's renegotiating the Samsung (green energy) deal... and removing the eight per cent provincial portion of the HST (from hydro bills) as of January,» she said.

By the way, this means your hydro bill will go up so Woodfibre LNG can have cheap power.

Our $ 10 - a-day child care program would really make a difference for Coquitlam families who are feeling squeezed after years of increasing hydro bills, skyrocketing car insurance rates and rising medical service premiums.»

First, it speaks to the anger many Ontarians feel about their hydro bills.

Ontario newlywed couple work four jobs between them, but still can't make enough to pay their hydro bill

If you buy take - out coffee and then run out of money for the hydro bill, that's just silly!

As a result, one reader (who owns a single, detached, 3000 square foot bungalow in Toronto) saw their hydro bill increase by 17 %, despite only a 6 % increase in year - over-year usage.

You get 80 % of the benefit, meaning your hydro bill gets paid on time, but it's only 20 % of the effort of allocating the payment each month.

It takes the average home owner less than an hour to install and will save you almost $ 150 per year off your hydro bill.

Fund your next vacation by paying your hydro bill!

Does your hydro bill seem high these days?

For now, only Ontario offers the generous rates, although some provinces will credit your hydro bill for eight to 11 cents per kWh for any excess produced.

For example, if your hydro bill is due on the 20th of this month, set up your on - line banking to pay the bill on the 20th of this month.

If you know you won't be able to pay your hydro bill or other important payment, contact your creditor.

Q: You've been telling people about the impact of renewables, specifically wind power, on Ontario's electricity or hydro bills.

Rural residents and farm owners attended a meeting in Goderich with the Hydro One Ombudsman and told her hydro bills have to come down.

It's a big part why our hydro bills have unfortunately increased so much over the past decade.

If consumers see that electricity bills in cities like New York are higher than they are in Toronto (or anywhere else in Ontario), they may be led to believe that the situation here isn't nearly as bad as critics contend and that the near double - digit increases they are seeing on their hydro bills are normal.

While concerns about Ontario's electricity bills mount, with families increasingly finding it hard to pay the «hydro bills,» Ontario's new Energy minister revealed in a Global TV interview that he doesn't know that the situation is a crisis... in fact, he doesn't know much about the entire portfolio.

While «line losses» in the past were spelled out on our hydro bills right after; «Electricity used this billing period» as «Adjusted usage in kilowatt hours», that line has now disappeared and it's cost is now lumped in with the «Delivery» line.

This will, according to the Auditor General, cost Ontarians billions of dollars extra on their hydro bills, for decades to come.

Cutting the provincial portion of HST from hydro bills won't solve the province's energy crisis.

Sometimes you have to buy a replacement fridge (and then you are better off anyway — you have a better fridge that will last much longer and, being new, will have a higher environmental efficiency rating and save you on the hydro bill).

When I came out of the school system I did not know what a hydro bill was or the difference between a radiator and a forced - air system.