Salem mayor: No recourse to higher natural gas prices | News, Sports, Jobs
mgreier@salemnews.net SALEM — Residents in the city’s gas aggregation program paid more than expected for both February and March after supplier Volunteer Energy increased the locked-in rate without warning. “It was a shock to all of us at city hall,” Mayor John Berlin said. Under the new two-year contract with Volunteer Energy, the city had agreed to a locked-in rate of 41 cents per one hundred cubic feet (Ccf) for the natural gas aggregation program, which allows the city to gain buying power by banding everyone together to buy gas from a certified supplier, such as Volunteer Energy...
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