{"id":61303,"date":"2025-12-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=61303"},"modified":"2025-12-28T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:00:00","slug":"halifax-waters-18-rate-jolt-is-still-too-high-rhpns-executive-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=61303","title":{"rendered":"Halifax Water\u2019s 18% rate jolt is still too high: RHPNS Executive Director says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DARTMOUTH:<\/strong> Rental Housing Providers Nova Scotia Executive Director Kevin Russell issued the following statement regarding the compliance filing submitted by Halifax Water to the Nova Scotia Regulatory and Appeals Board:<br><br>\u201cInstead of a 36% rate shock, Halifax Water is now asking for an 18% rate jolt.\u00a0 That\u2019s still way too high when the price of everything is going up,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Halifax Water needs to work with the board and intervenors to adopt our proposed 5% a year plan.\u00a0 This is too important an issue to be rushed through for New Year\u2019s Day.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We urge the regulator to reject the compliance filing and direct Halifax Water to work with its customers to spread out its revenue requirements over a five-year period starting April 1.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Russell continued with his statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The only reason Halifax Water has backed down from their original outrageous demand for a 36% water hike is because thousands of their customers joined our campaign to stop the water hikes,&#8221; said Russell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We need the board to direct Halifax Water to work with customers to ensure that there is no water rate increase of more than 5% a year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARTMOUTH: Rental Housing Providers Nova Scotia Executive Director Kevin Russell issued the following statement regarding the compliance filing submitted by Halifax Water to the Nova Scotia Regulatory and Appeals Board: \u201cInstead of a 36% rate shock, Halifax Water is now asking for an 18% rate jolt.\u00a0 That\u2019s still way too high when the price of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[50,45,9938,9117,9993,9945,9994],"class_list":["post-61303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-halifax","tag-halifax-water","tag-nsrab","tag-rate-hike","tag-rate-increase","tag-rental-housing-providers-n-s","tag-rhpns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}