Hydro rates increase April 1st

Posted By: Andrew Peplowski · 3/14/2013 6:22:00 AM

Electricity rates are going up by 2.4 per cent April 1st, but it could have been worse.

When making its rate application last summer Hydro Quebec had asked for a 2.9 per cent increase and then bumped it up to 3.4 per cent in December on orders from the Marois government, which had passed a decree demanding more profit from the utility.

But in it's ruling yesterday the Quebec Energy Board ignored the decree saying it was only obliged to consider the original application, because the budget process has not been finalized.

The rate increase next month will add about 30-dollars to the average homeowners electricity bill.



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  1. Jenny posted on 03/14/2013 09:48 AM
    Of course the rates will go up again, how else will the PQ survive their insane mult-million dollar funding into strengthening the OQLF and Bill 14 and 101!!! Vive Le Maudite Quebec Libre. Bunch of duffus'.
    Mr. Le Quebecois and Ms. Umaga (aka one of the same) the floor is all yours to comment.
  2. mo posted on 03/14/2013 10:04 AM
    This is another corruption in our lovely province.. A government owned and these prices should be going down not up..Where are the profits going? Look at the Casino in Montreal, in USA the monies go into schools..The kids wouldn't be marching in the streets if the government look after the people...Look at the hospitals and the way it's manage...Look at our pothole streets and we know the $ never reached the streets. What is wrong with this province that have Big Big problems of corruption and they bicker about speaking english or french or any other language..Stay here and you know you will have no monies left to retire....
  3. Drew posted on 03/14/2013 10:42 AM
    Do you feel a hand going deeper in your pocket?
  4. Olga posted on 03/14/2013 11:52 AM
    Everything always goes up in Quebec...except our wages.
  5. LMAO posted on 03/14/2013 06:13 PM
    Legalized robbery. Just another passive tax grab.
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