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1. BACKGROUND

5. On June 21, 2018, the Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1 received Royal Assent. Part V included the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act. The FCPP applies to any province or territory that requested it or that did not have an equivalent carbon pricing system in place by January 1, 2019. On October 23, 2018, the federal government confirmed that the GGPPA would apply to Ontario.
6. Enbridge Gas filed a consolidated 2019 Federal Carbon Pricing Program application with the OEB on January 11, 2019 (EB-2018-0205) (“2019 Application”), seeking approval to increase rates to recover costs in the EGD rate zone and Union rate zones associated with Enbridge Gas’s obligations under the FCPP. The OEB “generally found the proposals by Enbridge Gas reasonable”;2 approving forecasts and rate increases as filed and finalizing the establishment of new FCPP-related deferral and variance accounts.3 In its written submission on Enbridge Gas’s 2019

Application, OEB Staff stated that Enbridge Gas should apply to dispose of the 2019 balances in its FCPP-related deferral and variance accounts as part of a future annual FCPP-related application so that all FCPP-related costs and balances are reviewed in the same proceeding.4
7. On November 18, 2019, Enbridge Gas filed its 2020 Federal Carbon Pricing Program application (EB-2019-0247) (“2020 Application”) with the OEB seeking approval to: (i) increase rates to recover costs in the EGD rate zone and Union rate

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