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@SaskPower and @SaskEnergy municipal surcharges paid by city consumers and transferred to the @CityofRegina are not sponsorship money.
Surcharges paid to municipalities reflect standard long-standing agreements between the crowns and @munisask municipalities.
Here is the deal: https://twitter.com/ctvregina/status/1352088024146915336
Surcharges paid to municipalities reflect standard long-standing agreements between the crowns and @munisask municipalities.
Here is the deal: https://twitter.com/ctvregina/status/1352088024146915336
Power distribution systems occupying municipal rights of way (streets, parks, lanes) all make municipal operations very complex and time consuming. Not easy to fix underground municipal services intermingled with power/gas mains and overhead lines in back alleys and streets.
Most other provinces allow municipalities to apply a linear assessment for these utilities & energy companies pay muni taxes for encumbrance of municipal roadways.
#skpoli does not.
Eliminating surcharges would be like your neighbour parking his RV on your lawn for free.
#skpoli does not.
Eliminating surcharges would be like your neighbour parking his RV on your lawn for free.
Municipal surcharges also compensate municipalities for the loss of revenues from the sale of power. From 1920s to 1960s municipalities received as much as 70% of their annual revenues from generating and selling power (eg Moose Jaw).
Regina’s Science Center is the site of Regina’s former power plant. When the city sold its production and distribution rights to SaskPower, it was agreed the city would receive, in perpetuity [for ever!] a share of the power sales within the city.
So, like a royalty paid on Dragons Den, municipal surcharges are not freebees.
Municipal surcharges are not sponsorship money.
They are owed to municipalities.
By contract.
Municipal surcharges are not sponsorship money.
They are owed to municipalities.
By contract.
Yes, #skpoli municipalities produced and distributed power ...
And yes, it is for real:
