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Read our latest news and communications, as well as BC government directions related to the Fuel Price Transparency Act.
| Date | Description | Document |
|---|---|---|
| December 03, 2024 | BCUC staff sent letters to retail fuel stations in Quesnel seeking additional fuel pricing information. | BCUC Staff Request Pricing Information from Quesnel Retail Stations |
| June 24, 2024 | BCUC staff sent letters to retail fuel stations in Powell River seeking additional fuel pricing information. | BCUC Staff Request Pricing Information from Powell River Retail Stations |
| February 02, 2024 | Parkland responds to the BCUC’s questions regarding its Burnaby refinery incident on January 12, 2024. | Parkland response on Burnaby refinery incident |
| January 30, 2024 | The BCUC requests additional information from Parkland regarding its January 12, 2024 refinery outage and potential impacts to BC’s fuel market. | BCUC questions to Parkland on Burnaby refinery incident |
| June 26, 2023 | The BCUC advises the fuel industry of its new FPT Act Industry Portal to submit reports to the BCUC. | FPT Regulation Reporting Guidelines Letter |
| February 23, 2023 | The BCUC thanks those who actively participated in the consultation process and issues the Reporting Guidelines, which reflect the feedback and comments received from the industry. They will take effect starting with the March 2023 reporting period. | Reporting Requirements of the Fuel Price Transparency Regulation – Reporting Guidelines |
| December 16, 2022 | Information Release - The BCUC issued a Fuel Market Report to share key findings from its analysis of the September 2022 fuel price spike and to provide information gathered on BC's fuel market. | BCUC Issues Findings on Gasoline and Crude Oil Prices Disconnect |
| December 06, 2022 | Information Release - The BCUC is continuing its fuel pricing investigations, focusing on gathering further data from retail gas stations in select communities in BC. | BCUC Continues Data Collection for Fuel Price Investigation Project |
| September 29, 2022 | The BCUC requests integrated refiner-marketers, operating in the BC fuel market, to provide clarity to British Columbian drivers who may be confused and frustrated by the fuel market’s opposing pricing signals. | Request for Comment on Crude and Retail Price Disconnect |
| July 20, 2022 | Information Release - The BCUC shared preliminary findings from its Fuel Data Exploration Project #4 that monitored pricing behaviours to examine whether fuel retailers were unfairly profiting from the period when market conditions were impacted by the conflict in eastern Europe. | BCUC Shares Preliminary Findings on Retail Fuel Pricing Behaviours |
| July 06, 2022 | Information Release - On July 5, 2022, the BCUC initiated an open and transparent process, by Order G-183-22, to determine the confidentiality of data submitted by fuel wholesale marketers and select retail fuel stations as part of the BCUC’s fuel exploration projects. | BCUC Begins Public Process to Determine Confidentiality of Data from Fuel Investigation Projects |
| March 31, 2022 | News Release - The BCUC issued its Final Report for the FPT Act retail data collection project (Retail Pilot) to the Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation. | BCUC Issues Final Report on Fuel Retail Pilot to BC Government |
| March 17, 2022 | News Release - The BCUC announced it will be conducting additional monitoring of retail and wholesale price margins to ensure that fuel companies are not taking advantage of current market conditions. | BCUC Proactively Monitoring Fuel Pricing Behaviours |
| March 11, 2022 | News Release - The BCUC announced a continuation of its fuel pricing investigations, that will focus on gathering further data from fuel wholesale marketers and select retail stations in BC. | BCUC Continuing Fuel Pricing Investigations |
| February 04, 2022 | News Release - The BCUC issued a Draft Report summarizing the results of the FPT Act retail data collection project (Retail Pilot) that took place from November 2020 to November 2021. | BCUC Invites Public Feedback on Retail Pilot Draft Report |
| January 20, 2022 | News Release - By Order G-14-22, the BCUC issued its final framework to determine the treatment and confidentiality of fuel data that fuel companies submit to the BCUC under the FPT Act (Confidentiality Framework). | BCUC Issues Decision and Final Framework on Treatment and Confidentiality of Fuel Price Data |
| December 15, 2021 | News Release - The BCUC released a public survey asking British Columbians to share their experiences purchasing fuel from retail gas stations in BC, provide feedback on the fuel data they want industry to disclose, and determine what data would be helpful for the public to access. | BCUC Seeks Public's Feedback on Fuel Behaviours in British Columbia |
| November 01, 2021 | BC government issued Order in Council 592/21 setting out the Administrative Penalties (FPT Act) Regulation. | Administrative Penalties (Fuel Price Transparency Act) Regulation |
| September 20, 2021 | News Release - The BCUC released its first FPT Act Newsletter, which is compiled by BCUC staff each month to provide fuel consumers with an update on the gasoline and diesel fuel market in BC. | BCUC Releases First Fuel Price Transparency Act Newsletter |
| September 02, 2021 | News Release - The BCUC has initiated a new data collection project for twelve cities in BC. This project builds on the BCUC’s observations from our first data collection initiative and is in response to public questions regarding fuel pricing behaviours in the selected cities. | BCUC Initiates New Fuel Price Data Collection Project for Select Cities |
| May 26, 2021 | Information Release - On May 25, 2021, the BCUC issued its second draft of a Framework for the Determination of Confidentiality and Treatment of Protected Information (Framework Draft No. 2) as part of its public proceeding on fuel data confidentiality. | BCUC Invites Feedback on its Second Draft of the Fuel Price Data Confidentiality Framework |
| March 05, 2021 | News Release - The BCUC released its first Fuel Market Report (Report), which provides staff observations about fuel pricing behaviour in specific geographical areas of BC, as part of a fuel price data collection project. The public is invited to provide comments or further observations on the BCUC’s Report. | BCUC Releases Fuel Price Data Collection Report |
| February 09, 2021 | Information Release - On February 8, 2021, the BCUC issued its Framework Draft No. 1 (Draft Framework) to determine what fuel data, submitted by those in the wholesale and retail fuel industry under the FPT Act, should be considered protected information and confidential, and what information can be published. | BCUC Invites Feedback on its Draft Fuel Price Data Confidentiality Framework |
| December 01, 2020 | News Release - On November 30, 2020, by Order G-303-20, the BCUC announced a public process to establish a framework for the determination of confidentiality and treatment of protected information submitted in accordance with BC’s FPT Act. | BCUC Invites Participation in Hearing to Establish Confidential Information Framework for Fuel Price |
| November 17, 2020 | The BCUC issues a letter advising all retail dealers of the short Retail Station Survey that they are required to complete regarding each of their retail station(s) in BC. | Retail Pilot Retail Station Survey Letter |
| September 30, 2020 | Information Release - The BCUC announced a three-month extension to its expanded fuel price data collection project for select cities in BC. | BCUC Extends Fuel Price Ad-Hoc Data Collection Project |
| September 24, 2020 | News Release - By Order G-242-20, the BCUC established an open and transparent public hearing process for the review of Parkland Corporation’s application seeking an advanced ruling on fuel price reporting data confidentiality for certain commercial information that the company is required to submit under the FPT Act. | BCUC Establishes Public Review Process for Advanced Ruling on Confidentiality of Fuel Price Data Rep |
| September 18, 2020 | The BCUC issues a letter to retail dealers in BC, advising them of the Special Direction and upcoming information sessions. | BCUC Engagement for Retail Pilot Letter |
| September 18, 2020 | News Release - The BCUC initiated its consultation process with retail dealers of gasoline and diesel fuel in BC as part of a new retail data collection pilot (Pilot) starting in November 2020. | BCUC Initiates its Consultation Process for Fuel Retail Pilot |
| September 10, 2020 | News Release - On September 9, 2020, the BCUC initiated its engagement with entities in the wholesale fuel industry who, in accordance with the FPT Regulations, are required to make regular reports to the BCUC starting in November 2020. | BCUC Starts Industry Engagement on Data Collection Process with Wholesale Fuel Industry |
| September 09, 2020 | The BCUC issued a letter to those in the wholesale industry, advising them of the FPT regulations and upcoming information sessions. | OIC No. 474/20 Reporting Requirements Letter |
| August 14, 2020 | The special direction from the BC government outlines how the BCUC, as Administrator of the FPT Act, will require fuel data from retailer dealers of reportable fuels for the purposes of a retail data collection pilot. | Special Direction, Section 4 of FPT Act |
| August 14, 2020 | The BC government establishes new mandatory reporting requirements for the wholesale market in accordance with the FPT Act. | View Order in Council 474 |
| August 14, 2020 | News Release - The BCUC welcomed the BC government’s announcement establishing the regulations for fuel wholesalers in accordance with the FPT Act. Order in Council (OIC) No. 474 outlines the regulations for wholesale fuel reporting in BC, including the type of data that will be collected by the BCUC, the organizations who will be required to submit data, and the frequency of reporting. | BCUC Welcomes BC Government Regulations for Fuel Wholesalers |
| July 30, 2020 | News Release - The BCUC has created a New Developments page on GasPricesBC.ca to feature fuel pricing data for select cities in BC. | BCUC Makes Expanded Fuel Price Data Available on GasPricesBC.ca |
| June 15, 2020 | News Release - As Administrator of the FPT Act, the BCUC will be expanding its fuel price data collection and reporting, on an ad-hoc basis, for select cities in BC. The data will be collected from June 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020 and made publicly available on the BCUC’s GasPricesBC.ca website at regular intervals. | BCUC Expands Fuel Price Data Based on Public Feedback |
| May 25, 2020 | The BC government announces they will be undertaking consultation with fuel industry stakeholders in BC, beginning June 1, 2020. | BC government Fuel Price Transparency Act Consultation |
| April 07, 2020 | News Release - The BCUC, in its role as the Administrator of the FPT Act, launched GasPricesBC.ca. This website has been developed as a first step in providing the public with more information about how gasoline and diesel prices are set in our Province. | BCUC Launches GasPricesBC.ca |
| March 16, 2020 | The BCUC issued a letter to companies in the fuel (oil and gas) industry in BC, advising them of the FPT Act and our role as Administrator. | L-9-20-BCUC-FPTA-Additional-Information-to-Stakeholders |
| March 09, 2020 | Information Release - The BCUC welcomed the BC Government’s announcement designating the BCUC as the Administrator of BC’s FPT Act. | BCUC Named Administrator of the Fuel Price Transparency Act |
| March 09, 2020 | The BC government created Order in Council 123 designating the BCUC as the Administrator of the FPT Act. | View Order in Council 123 |