Rate increases to pay for decades of upgrades to Edmonton’s sewer system were approved by city council’s utilities committee on Friday. Councillors also set the rate plan in motion for Blatchford’s development. Continue reading
Council’s utilities committee has agreed on the next step in approving a $12 million demolition of the composter facility, but one councillor doesn’t agrees with the plan for the replacement building. Continue reading
It’ll cost $12 million to finish the job that heat and chemicals from the aerobic composting process started. On Friday, the utilities committee will be asked to approve the demolition budget to tear down the Aeration Hall Building. Continue reading
Paquette questions why city council would be willing to increase your EPCOR bill to pay for utility upgrades in the core but won’t install water and sewers for a key industrial park. Continue reading
Edmontonians will learn in the next couple of weeks how close a local ban on single-use plastic would be to the one Ottawa has planned for 2021. Continue reading
Opinions from two different Calgary neighbourhoods clashed when a city committee received its annual flood mitigation update Wednesday. Continue reading
City council’s utilities committee was presented with one unlikely option to build a special green utility for Blatchford: a 0.4 per cent property tax increase to cover off a missing $93 million. Continue reading
City council will be asked to approve 2.5 per cent utility rate hikes over the next four years to pay for changes coming to waste management in Edmonton. Continue reading
A new report released just prior to Edmonton City Council’s utilities committee meeting Thursday calls for another $52 million to be invested in Blatchford’s district energy system. Continue reading
Members of Edmonton’s utility committee asked EPCOR to provide more details to back a request to build a solar farm to power the E.L. Smith Water Treatment Plant at 169 Street and 35 Avenue. Continue reading