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| Better brace yourself
for another gas hike

IT’S BECOMING as essen-
tial a part of the New Year’s
tradition as Auld Lang Syne
in the northwest.
_. As revellers rang in 2005,
the amount they pay for nat-
ural gas also rose to the oc-
casion.
And given the recent cold
- weather and subsequent in-
crease in natural gas use, the
next utility bills ‘could very
well be a double whammy.

But it will be a couple
of weeks before consumers
know the size of the Pacific

. Northern. Gas (PNG) hike
bite.

PNG had asked for an 11
per cent hike in the cost of
gas, an 18.5 per cent increase
in the, charge for delivering
that gas, and another 60 cents
a gigajoule tacked on to the

_ delivery charge to cover the
shortfall between what the

‘B.C. Utilities. Commission.

(BCUC) has allowed it to
charge for gas delivery and
what PNG» ‘says it actually
-cost it sine that rate was put
in place.

The botiom line. was a

an additional $25 million of
new capital simply to meet
our debt amortization pay-

' ments over the 2006 to 2010 »

time frame,” 1 says in its
submission to the utilities
commission.

The commission has al-
lowed a only six per cent
increase to cover projected
decreases in delivery charge
revenues and will hear argu--
ments from PNG on the eq-

uily issue at a Jan. 20 hear-
ing.

And it has approved the
60 cents/gj delivery charge
rider on an interim basis..
~ So, while the final figure
awails the outcome of the
‘hearing and the. BCUC’s
subsequent decision.
point it looks like that aver-
age homeowner is ‘guaran-
teed a $99 extra’a, year on
his/her natural gas bill.

~ The Story is
Changing...

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L Alzheimer Disease is being
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recognizing the signs earlier and
doctors have better tools to
diagnose the disease.

In the fight against
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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - All
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Thursday, January 27, “Virtual Realities - Virtual Libraries
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Friday, February 4, “A historical took at American cinema"
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Friday, February 18, “Petroglyph at Anlagasimdeex:
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Thursday, March 3, “Pack your bags: This knowledge i is
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‘Election of Officers and business at hand will be held
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member or wish more.information, phone Terri at

638-7400

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Projections are never right
on the money, so sometimes
PNG is essentially overpaid
by consumers -and at other
times underpaid. The differ-
ence is recorded in what’s
called a gas cost variance
account (GCVA).

When PNG made its
latest rate submission last
month, the amount it had
been overpaid by consum-
ers by the end of 2004 was
just under $2.5 million - it
had been $2.87 at the end of
2003.

PNG proposed clearing .

that ‘debt’ by knocking 50
cents/gj off the price of the

gas - through what’s called.

a rider - which its own fig-
ures said would reduce the

GCVA to $1.03 million by .

‘the end of this year.
The BCUC -has ordered
PNG to come back with a

new rider that will clear the:

major part of the GCVA by
the end of this year.

While that suggests the

deduction will be approxi-
mately doubled to just over
a $1/gj, the new figure was
- not available at press time.
The delivery charge issue
is much more complicated
because PNG wants signifi-

cant changes on its “deemed

equity”.

That would not only al-
~ Joweit to increase delivery
Charges significantly, | but
the extra revenue would also
improve its chances of bor-
rowing money, something it
says.it cannot do now. ~

“PNG will need to raise

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