OntarioBill 50First Reading
Bill 50: No Free Ride for Fossil Fuels Act, 2025
Sponsor: Schreiner, MikeIntroduced June 4, 2025Last checked August 28, 2026
Read the official text on ola.orgOfficial version — Legislative Assembly of Ontario
What this bill does
This Ontario bill amends the Municipal Act, 2001 and the City of Toronto Act, 2006 to explicitly grant municipalities and local boards the power to impose fees or charges on natural gas producers, distributors, transmitters, and storage companies for their use of municipal highways and related infrastructure, and prevents the provincial government from limiting that power through regulation.
Plain-language summary by Legisail.
Business impact
Compliance
This bill directly affects natural gas producers, gas distributors, gas transmitters, and gas storage companies operating in Ontario that have infrastructure — such as pipes, conduits, poles, equipment, or other works — located on or planned for municipal roads and highways. These are typically mid-to-large energy companies involved in the day-to-day transmission, distribution, and storage of natural gas across Ontario municipalities, including Toronto. Their routine activities of installing, maintaining, and operating gas infrastructure on public roadways could now be subject to new municipal fees, increasing their operating costs. Those costs could ultimately be passed through to commercial and residential gas customers, so businesses of all sizes that rely on natural gas for heating, manufacturing, or other operations may see higher utility bills.
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Where this bill is
First ReadingJune 4, 2025
Next: Second Reading debate
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