Northern Stores was probably one of the first retailers that we met with to talk about what we could do to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels. Northern Stores has indicated that their preference was to find ways to reduce their utilization of energy and also reduce energy costs, and, of course, they said their preference was to have a transparent process so that people could see what they were doing. Northern Stores has spent a lot of time in changing their cooling systems, their freezers, also changing their utilization of lights. We had identified $3 million a year for developing some sort of commercial subsidy to reduce the costs to people that buy from food stores and so on, so we used that and so we were able to reduce the rates significantly and that’s being passed on to the consumers. We are following up with Northern Stores to make sure that happens. Thank you.
Bob McLeod on Question 362-16(5): Impact On Consumers Of Electricity Rate Reductions
In the Legislative Assembly on February 3rd, 2011. See this statement in context.
Question 362-16(5): Impact On Consumers Of Electricity Rate Reductions
Oral Questions
February 2nd, 2011
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