seeing that high electricity Bild really you know pumps up my blood pressure as well do you know if you live in Calgary you're paying more in local access fees on electricity bills as compared to Edmonton The Province saying it's more than three times on average this is because Calgary's local access fees have a variable rate while it's fixed in Edmonton for example a city news colleague in Edmonton paid a $1 access fee in March compared to an employee in Calgary who paid more than $5 both of them living in apartments it's it's it's not fair it at least at least a province should have the similar taxes for everyone it should not be City by City it definitely affects our cost of living right we don't want our cost of living to go up right and Edmonton like they pay a lower cost of living so it does matter not Terribly Happy I'm also not terribly happy that we're paying a lot more than people from BC but now the Alberta Government is stepping in to help Calgary with utilities Minister Nathan neudorf introducing a bill that if passed would ban cities from using variable rates to calculate local access fees on power Bills starting in the new year uh specifically is only um impacting calary at this point in time we do we are aware of other municipalities in large part due to the windfall profits Calgary saw that were contemplating making those changes themselves this is clarifying that this is not the Avenue for them to seek uh those kinds of funds Calgary took in an excess of $186 Million last year from the fees with city council agreeing to change its calculation and make it more affordable but that won't happen until 2027 in Calgary henna s City news