Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a return to an oral question asked by Mrs. Marie-Jewell on February 23rd of the Premier. It concerns the percentage of $1 million power cost carried by other communities.
Mr. Speaker, the low water rider to collect $1 million from communities outside of the Yellowknife Snare system is not being billed out on a percentage basis.
Rather, it is assessed as a flat rate charge of 0.6 cents per kilowatt hour to all customers outside of the system.
Customers within the Yellowknife system will be paying an additional $3.3 million in low-water rider costs. Depending on their classification, customers will pay between 1.2 and 2.5 cents extra per kilowatt hour.
Under the Public Utilities Board decision 13-94, collection will continue until November 30, 1995, or until the required amounts are collected, whichever is earlier.