In the dark: Municipalities pay far too much for streetlights
NB Power charges cities, towns almost double service costs despite pricing guidelines
"I don't think it would be particularly difficult," said Hartland lawyer Peter Hyslop, a former intervener who used to represent the public at NB Power rate hearings.
"They could certainly come forward and make the argument they are being overcharged."
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Street lighting is one of NB Power's smallest costs, but most lucrative businesses.
The utility estimates it costs $13.4 million to supply the service, including overhead and profit charges, but it bills customers — mainly the province and municipal governments — nearly double that amount, $26.3 million.
That's contrary to pricing guidelines set down for the utility 25 years ago, but municipal governments have traditionally not attended NB Power rate hearings and without prompting the issue of streetlights rarely comes up.
NB Power is charging municipalities almost double what it costs to provide streetlight service. (CBC)
"It
just doesn't get the same attention," said current public intervener
Heather Black, who attended the last rate hearing in February and notes
information about street light costs were made available, but not acted
on.
"NB Power is obliged to give all that data to the board and the board looks at it along with everything else."
Most New Brunswick municipalities rely on NB Power for streetlights and pay the bills they get without any knowledge of whether prices are fair or unfair.
The expense varies among communities depending on how many streets are serviced.
Big bills for cities, towns
A small town, such as Rothesay, pays $146,000 per year while a medium-sized community, such as Riverview, pays $518,000.
Cities pay the most, Fredericton just more than $1 million this year and Moncton just more than $2 million.
But whatever the size of the bill, all communities pay substantially more than what it costs to provide them the service.
In Miramichi, the city has budgeted to pay NB Power $558,000 for its streetlights this year according to Darlene O'Shea, the treasurer.
With
a bill of just over $2 million a year for streetlights, the City of
Moncton could see a substantial saving if it was reduced to the level
suggested by pricing guidelines for NB Power. (CBC)
It's
a substantial expense for the community, 1.7 per cent of the municipal
operations budget, just behind the cost of door-to-door garbage
collection.
It's also at least $250,000 too high according to pricing guidelines developed for NB Power by the utilities board 25 years ago.
Told to fix rates 25 years ago
In 1992 NB Power was directed to charge different customer groups 100 per cent of the cost of supplying them service, including overhead and profit, with a maximum price of 105 per cent.
At the time NB Power's prices for streetlight service were found to be the furthest from that goal, up to 70 per cent too high, and the utility was encouraged to fix it and other outliers over the following few years.
"The board expects NB Power to develop a plan to move all classes within the approved range (of fairness) over a period of time," the Public Utilities Board wrote in an April 1992 decision.
The board then reconfirmed that decision in 2005 and its successor — the Energy and Utilities Board — reconfirmed it in 2016.
If
municipalities want to see lower streetlight rates, they should show up
at NB Power's hearings at the Energy & Utilities Board, says a
former public intervenor. (CBC)
However,
while the pricing of power for most customers has moved closer to the
cost of providing the service since 1992, it has only worsened for
streetlight customers.
A report commissioned by NB Power for its February rate hearing this year indicated streetlight charges are now at 196 per cent of the cost of providing the service, much worse than 1992 and by far the highest price in relation to cost of any service NB Power provides.
NB Power has a rate design hearing scheduled for next spring and Hyslop said if municipalities want better prices they should show up and fight for them.
"There's no reason at all they couldn't intervene," said Hyslop.
"They're a ratepayer."
NB Power declined to comment on its streetlight pricing practices, saying those will be addressed at next year's hearing.
"We will limit our comments at this time," wrote NB Power spokeswoman Deborah Nobes in an email to CBC News.
"We look forward to providing more details with regard to NB Power's position on this matter via the hearing process."
16 Comments
"municipal governments have traditionally not
attended NB Power rate hearings" - Why the heck not? Municipal
governments pay for electricity not only for street lights but also for
municipal buildings. Why don't they get themselves more involved in the
hearings?
Shawn McShane
Reply to SarahRose Werner
What for? If NB Power lowers the rate for the
muni they will just raise the electricity costs for your home and mine.
Same difference. The public never gets a break. The costs fall to us.
Herman Nelson
They probably need to charge extra so the
province can afford to get the light poles from PQ instead of buying
locally. Glad to see the CBC has not mentioned it though.
Dwight Mullover
Funny that city staffers have no problem increasing
property tax, yet have a great opportunity to save money and have
neglected this for over 25 years.
Civil servants serving the public.
Shawn McShane
Reply to Dwight Mullover It doesn't matter does it. Either way me and you will pay either through property taxes or NB Power rate increase.
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"paul.black@twinriverspaper. "Hoyt, Len" <len.hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>, "tyler.rajeski@ <tyler.rajeski@ "darcy.ouellette@ <darcy.ouellette@ <dan.murphy@umnb.ca>, "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com" <jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>, "shelley.wood@sjenergy.com" <shelley.wood@sjenergy.com>, "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com" <dan.dionne@perth-andover.com> <pierreroy@edmundston.ca>, "ryan.mitchell@sjenergy.com" <ryan.mitchell@sjenergy.com>, "sstoll@stollprofcorp.com" <sstoll@stollprofcorp.com>, "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com" <pzarnett@bdrenergy.com> Good morning, Please note below the information for the Virtual Public Forum related to Matter 529 - NB Power Rate Design Application The Virtual Public Forum will take place via Zoom videoconference on June 1st, 2023, from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. It should also be noted that registered interveners are permitted to observe the public forum but may not make a presentation. The public forums are intended for those who have not registered as interveners to make submissions about the application. Zoom Videoconference information: Virtual Public Forum - Matter 529 - NB Power Rate Design Application / Forum Public Virtuel - Instance 529 - Énergie NB Demande d'établissement des tarifs Join Zoom Meeting via telephone: 855-703-8985 Canada Toll-free Or Join Zoom Meeting via web: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/ Meeting ID: 873 3880 6224 Passcode: xxxxxxxxxxxx Bonjour, Veuillez noter ci-dessous l'information pour le forum public virtuel relative à l'instance 529 - Énergie NB - Demande d'établissement des tarifs La session du forum public virtuel va se dérouler sur la plateforme Zoom par vidéoconférence le 1er juin 2023, de 14 h à 16 h. Il est aussi à noter que les intervenants inscrits sont autorisés à observer le forum public, mais ne peuvent pas faire une présentation. 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Municipal Advisory Corporation Inc
Board of Directors / Conseil d’administration
Chris Spear
President / Président
(St. Andrews)
Paul Lang
Vice President / Vice Président
(Kent RSC)
Scott Sparks
Treasurer / Trèsoriére
(New Maryland)
Brenda Knight
Secretary / Secrétaire
Natalie Bowen
Director / Directrice
(Quispamsis)
Gilles Legacy
Director / Directeur
(Dalhousie)
Claudette McLean
Director / Directrice
(Southwest RSC)
Angèle McCaie
Director / Directrice
(Rogersville)
Suzanne Coulombe
Director / Directrice
(Saint-Quentin)
Directory
| Municipality / Municipalité | Name / Nom | Phone / Téléphone | |
| Arcadia Village of Gagetown Village of Cambridge-Narrows | Robert White | (506) 488-3567 | Robert.white@arcadianb.ca |
| Beaurivage Town of Richibucto Ville de Saint-Louis-de-Kent | Mélanie Savoie | (506) 523-7870 | Melanie.savoie@richibucto.org |
| Belle-Baie Ville de Beresford | Marc-André Godin | (506) 542-2721 | marcandre.godin@bereford.ca |
| Belledune Ville de Belledune | Brenda Cormier | (506) 522-3707 | bell001@nb.aibn.com |
| Champdoré Village de Saint-Antoine | Janice LeBlanc | (506) 525-4020 | village@saint-antoine.ca |
| Commission de Services Régionaux 3 | Jocelyne Hachey | (506) 725-2402 | Jocelyne.Hachey@CSRChaleurRSC.ca |
| Community of Three Rivers Village of Petitcodiac | Sandra Kelly | (506) 756-3140 | |
| District of Carleton North Town of Florenceville-Bristol Village of Bath | Sarah Pacey | (506) 392-6763 | office@florencevillebristol.ca |
| District of Tobique Valley Village of Plaster Rock | Patty St. Peter | (506) 356-6070 | vilprock@nb.aibn.com |
| Downtown Bathurst Revitalization Corporation Inc. | Christian Daigle | (506) 548-8068 | dbrc-crcb@bathurst.ca |
| Eastern Charlotte Town of St. George Village of Black’s Harbour | Jason Gaudet | (506) 755-4320 | Jason.gaudet@easterncharlotte.ca |
| Edmundston Village de Rivière-Verte | Evelyn Therrien | (506) 263-1060 | evelyne@nb.aibn.com |
| Five Rivers Village of Rexton | Shane Thomson | (506) 523-6921 | shane@villageofrexton.com |
| Fundy Albert Village of Hillsborough Alma Riverside Albert | Hanna Downey | (506) 734-3711 | CAO@fundyalbert.ca |
| Grand Bay-Westfield Town of Grand Bay-Westfield | John Enns-Wind | (506) 738-6400 | john@towngbw.ca |
| Grand Bouctouche Ville de Bouctouche | Remi Leblanc | (506) 743-7000 | remi.leblanc@bouctouche.ca |
| Grand Manan Village of Grand Manan | Alyssa Engersall | (506) 662-7059 | clerk@villageofgrandmanan.com |
| Grand-Sault / Grand Falls | Eric Gagnon | (506) 475-7777 | Eric.gagnon@grandsault.ca |
| Greater Miramichi Regional Service Commission | Shawn Cripps | (506) 778-5359 | info@rsc5.ca |
| Hampton Town of Hampton | Sherman St. Germain | (506) 832-6065 | info@townofhampton.ca |
| Hanwell Hanwell Rural Community | Teri Parker | (506) 460-1177 | clerk@hanwell.nb.ca |
| Harvey Village of Harvey | Katherine Henry | (506) 366-6240 | Village.harvey@rogers.com |
| Heron Bay Town of Dalhousie | Gilles Legacy | (506) 684-7600 | gilles.legacy@dalhousie.ca |
| Île de Lamèque Ville de Lamèque | Dave Brown | (506) 344-3222 | dave.brown@lameque.ca |
| Kedgwick Communuaté rural de Kedgwick | Carole Tremblay | (506) 284-2160 | carole.tremblay@kedgwick.ca |
| KV Fire Department | Chief Michael Boyle | (506) 848-6601 | admin.kvfd@nb.aibn.com |
| Kent Regional Service Commission | Paul Lang | (506) 743-1490 | Paul.lang@csrk.ca |
| Memramcook Ville de Memramcook | Caroline LeBlanc | (506) 758-4064 | caroline@memramcook.com |
| Moncton Industrial Development Ltd. | Pierre Dupuis | (506) 859-0700 | mctdev@nb.aibn.com |
| Municipality of Grand Lake Village of Chipman Village of Minto | Michelle Dickinson | (506) 339-6601 | michelle.dickinson @municipalityofgrandlake.ca |
| Nackawic-Millville Town of Nackawic | Kathryn Clark | (506) 575-2241 | Kathryn.clark@nackawic.com |
| Neguac Village de Neguac | Adrien Robichaud | (506) 776-3950 | direction@neguac.com |
| New Maryland Village of New Maryland | Scott Sparks | (506) 458-6095 | scott.sparks@vonm.ca |
| Northern NB Airport Authority Inc. | Jamie Degrace | (506) 549-5050 | Jamie.degrace@airbathurst.com |
| Nouvelle-Arcadie Village of Rogersville | Angèle McCaie | (506) 775-2080 | rogervil@nbnet.nb.ca |
| Quispamsis Town of Quispamsis | Natalie Bowen | (506) 849-5778 | nbowen@quispamsis.ca |
| Regional Service Commission 8 | Steve Roberts | (506) 432-7530 | info@rsc8.ca |
| Restigouche Regional Service Commission | Betty-Ann Fortin | (506) 789-2595 | bettyann@commissionrestigouche.ca |
| Rothesay Town of Rothesay | Ashley Burchell | (506) 848-6660 | ashleyburchell@rothesay.ca |
| Saint Andrews Town of St-Andrews | Chris Spear | (506) 529-5250 | cspear@townofstandrews.ca |
| Saint-Quentin Ville de Saint-Quentin | Suzanne Coulombe | (506) 235-2425 | scoulombe@saintquentin.ca |
| Salisbury Village of Salisbury | Dianne Ayles | (506) 372-3230 | dianneayles@salisburynb.ca |
| Shediac Ville de Shediac | Denise Guitard | (506) 532-7000 | denise.guitard@shediac.ca |
| South-East Regional Service Commission | Stephanie Thorne | (506) 877-1050 | Stephanie.thorne@nbse.ca |
| Southwest New Brunswick Service Commission | Claudette MacLean | (506) 466-7830 | Claudette.maclean@snbsc.ca |
| Sussex Town of Sussex Village of Sussex Corner | Tara Olesen | (506) 432-4540 | Tara.Olesen@sussex.ca |
| Tantramar Village of Dorchester Town of Sackville | Jenn Borne | (506) 379-3030 | jborne@dorchester.ca |
| Vallées-des-Rivières Village de Ste-Anne-de Madawaska Ville de Saint-Léonard | Mélanie Soucy-Tardif | (506) 423-3111 | comptabilite@saint-leonard.ca |
| Valley Waters Village of Norton | Anita Pollock | (506) 839-3011 | vnorton@nbnet.nb.ca |
| Village of Doaktown | Karen Petitpas | (506) 365-7370 | Karen.petitpas@doaktown.ca |
| Village of McAdam | Ed Arseneau | (506) 784-2293 | earsenault@mcadamnb.com |
| Ville de Shediac Commission des Ėgouts | Joey Frennette | (506) 532-7025 | joey@gssc-cesb.ca |
| Woodstock Town of Woodstock | Fallon Lappage | (506) 325-4600 | fallon@town.woodstock.nb.ca |
Board Members
Chairperson and CEO
François Beaulieu, LLB, LLM
François Beaulieu was appointed
Chairperson of the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board in 2022,
after having served as Vice-Chairperson since 2014.
Prior to joining the Board, Mr.
Beaulieu spent seven years as a solicitor for The City of Saint John,
where his practice included contract and public procurement law and
public-private partnerships. He began his career as a solicitor with the
law firm Clark Drummie, with a general practice focusing on both civil
and criminal litigation.
Mr. Beaulieu is currently a part-time
instructor at the Faculty of Law at the University of New Brunswick and
has previously acted in the same capacity at the Université de Moncton.
Mr. Beaulieu is past Chair of CAMPUT -
Canada’s Energy and Utility Regulators, a member of the Council of
Canadian Administrative Tribunals and the Law Society of New Brunswick.
Member
Heather Black, BBA, LLB
Heather Black was appointed as a member of the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board in 2022.
Ms. Black spent her early career
practicing corporate, commercial and energy law in Fredericton. She was
a partner in a regional law firm until 2014, when she was appointed as
New Brunswick’s Public Intervener for the Energy Sector. As Public
Intervener, she advocated on behalf of the public interest in all
energy-related proceedings of the Board.
Ms. Black is the Chair of the New
Brunswick Law Foundation. She has previously served on the Executive
Committee of the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the
Board of the New Brunswick Legal Aid Services Commission.
Ms. Black is a member of the Law Society of New Brunswick, the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, and of CAMPUT.
Member
John Herron, BA, MBA
John Herron was appointed to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board in 2013.
Mr. Herron holds a Master in Business
Administration. His private sector career includes sales and marketing
management in steel distribution, including project management for the
Hibernia Offshore Project and as an enterprise solution manager with
Atlantic Canada’s leading telecommunications company. Prior to Mr.
Herron’s appointment to the Board, he served as the President of the
Atlantica Centre for Energy where he sponsored and produced numerous
papers on the region’s energy sector.
From 1997-2004, Mr. Herron served as a
Member of Parliament of Canada, representing the Saint John Fundy
region. During that time, he served as a leading member of the Standing
Committee for the Environment, including a term as its Vice-Chair.
Mr. Herron is a member of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals and of CAMPUT.
Member
Christopher Stewart, BEd (Hons.), LLB
Christopher Stewart was appointed to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board in 2022.
Prior to joining the Board, Mr.
Stewart was a senior partner with the law firm Stewart McKelvey, having
spent 33 years with that firm in its Saint John and Moncton offices,
with an energy development and regulatory practice and worked
extensively in the area of municipal law and other administrative law
fields, as well as a general litigation practice.
Mr. Stewart has been involved with in
the community with various organizations over the years, including
serving on the Boards of Greater Moncton’s economic development agency
3Plus and the Shediac Bay Yacht Club.
Mr. Stewart is a member of the Law
Society of New Brunswick, a member of the Council of Canadian
Administrative Tribunals and of CAMPUT.
Member
Stephanie Wilson, BScE
Stephanie Wilson was appointed as a member of the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board in 2022.
Over her 25-year career in the energy
sector, Ms. Wilson has held a variety of roles in operations,
engineering, project management and commercial activities. After
graduating from the University of New Brunswick, she began her career
with NB Power in the generation group and followed in roles with TC
Energy in pipeline integrity and power project development,
construction, and maintenance. Prior to joining the Board, Ms. Wilson
held responsibilities within TC Energy for commercial and business
development activities for its Mexico natural gas pipeline systems and
most recently in Canada for its Canadian natural gas pipeline systems.
Ms. Wilson is a member of the
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New
Brunswick, the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, and of
CAMPUT.
Board Staff
ADMINISTRATION
Kathleen Mitchell – Chief Clerk
Melissa Curran - Deputy Chief Clerk
Linda Cormier - Records and Information Officer
Stephanie LeBlanc - Administrative Clerk
LEGAL
Katherine McBrearty - General Counsel
Véronique Otis - Legal Counsel
REGULATORY AND FINANCE
Trudy Atherton Hall – Accounting Administrator
Susan Colwell – Advisor
Michael Dickie – Manager, Finance
David Keenan – Advisor
David Young – Manager, Regulatory Services
PIPELINE
Todd McQuinn, P. Eng. - Director, Pipeline Safety
Don Persaud – Pipeline Inspector
David Rhydwen – Pipeline Inspector
RELIABILITY AND COMPLIANCE
Paul MacDonald – Director, Reliability Standards, Compliance and Enforcement
Mark Vautour – Compliance Officer
How can EUB talk fairness when some enjoy sweet deals given by government.
The planned power hike for residential customers is going to hurt most NBers and wages don't rise has quickly has the cost of living.