Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the work was done on that motion looking at the costs and some of the cost drivers of it, but it wasn't finalized as to options of making any changes. There wasn't a decision to proceed beyond that point. The big drivers that we see from the 2005-06 numbers to the 2006-07 numbers are the fuel rate riders that were in place. For example, $700,000 of that is directly related to fuel rate riders that came into effect on February 1, 2006, I believe. That was up almost four cents over and above the previous one. Three hundred ninety thousand dollars is another rate rider that fell in the communities of Inuvik and Norman Wells, and then $121,000 was another fuel rate rider that affected other diesel fuel communities. So those are some of the impacts. We expect actually with the work that is ongoing now on rate riders or the actual general rate application, there is a potential for an increase further to that because, as the Territorial Power Support Program is in place, we pay the full cost up to the first 700 kilowatt hours matching the Yellowknife rate. As these rate riders come into place in those communities, that is taken up within that cost. The people only feel the impacts of those rate riders once they go above the 700 kilowatt hours. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Committee Motion 51-15(5): To Delete $682,000 From Human Resources, Operations Expenditures In Bill 22, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 3, 2006-2007, Defeated
In the Legislative Assembly on March 9th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 51-15(5): To Delete $682,000 From Human Resources, Operations Expenditures In Bill 22, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 3, 2006-2007, Defeated
Revert To Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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