Bill 50 explained in plain English
No Free Ride for Fossil Fuels Act, 2025
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 44th Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The No Free Ride for Fossil Fuels Act, 2025, would enable Ontario municipalities to charge fees to specific natural gas companies for their use of municipal infrastructure.
This bill, titled the No Free Ride for Fossil Fuels Act, 2025, proposes to allow municipalities in Ontario to charge fees to certain natural gas companies. Specifically, it would permit municipalities and the City of Toronto to impose fees on producers, distributors, transmitters, and storage companies of natural gas for services, costs, or the use of property related to their infrastructure located on municipal highways. The bill also includes provisions to prevent regulations from limiting this new fee-charging power. The Act would come into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Grants municipalities and the City of Toronto the power to impose fees on natural gas producers, distributors, transmitters, and storage companies.
- Specifies that these fees can be for services, costs payable, or the use of property related to gas infrastructure on municipal highways.
- Amends legislation to ensure that regulations cannot restrict this newly granted power to charge fees.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Municipalities in Ontario
- The City of Toronto
- Local boards in Ontario
- Producers of natural gas
- Gas distributors
- Gas transmitters
- Natural gas storage companies
- Municipalities and the City of Toronto gain the right to impose fees on certain natural gas companies.
- Natural gas companies are subject to potential new fees imposed by municipalities and the City of Toronto.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Municipalities and the City of Toronto may collect new fees from specified natural gas companies.
- The specified natural gas companies may incur new costs due to these fees.
- The specific amounts or calculation methods for the fees are not detailed in the bill text.
- The full scope of 'services or activities, costs payable or the use of property' that can be charged for is not exhaustively listed.
Adds a new subsection that allows a municipality or local board to impose fees or charges on specific natural gas companies (producers, distributors, transmitters, storage companies) for services, costs, or the use of property related to their infrastructure on municipal highways.
Source: Section 1
Adds a new subsection stating that regulations made under the Act cannot limit the municipality's or local board's power to impose the new fees described for gas services and activities.
Source: Section 2
Adds a new subsection that allows the City of Toronto or a local board to impose fees or charges on specific natural gas companies (producers, distributors, transmitters, storage companies) for services, costs, or the use of property related to their infrastructure on municipal highways.
Source: Section 3
Adds a new subsection stating that regulations made under the Act cannot limit the City of Toronto's or its local board's power to impose the new fees described for gas services and activities.
Source: Section 4
Defines terms such as 'producer', 'gas distributor', 'gas transmitter', and 'storage company' that are used in the proposed amendments to the Municipal Act, 2001, and the City of Toronto Act, 2006.
Source: Sections 1 and 3
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