Energy security in the residential sector

Tackling the problem of misguided energy policies have made Nova Sco- heating emergencies means improving energy tia and Nova Scotians vulnerable to the vagaries security, while at the same time having programs of the energy market and extremely energy in- in place to help those who experience a heating secure. [...] The anticipated growth in the lowest rate of growth between the 2006–07 both the cost of energy and connection-charges and 2008–09 heating seasons. [...] The rapid run-up in the cost tween mid-2007 and mid-2008 was unexpected, of crude oil from mid-2007 to mid-2008 is reflect- as was the cost of fuel oil during the 2007–08 ed in the cost of fuel oil in the 2007–08 heating heating season. [...] EnErgy sEcurit y in thE rEsidEntial sEc tor 15 4 Residential Tenancy Act Not all Nova Scotians live in their own homes; reasonably related to the tenant’s continued for example, about 20 percent of economic fami- use and enjoyment of the premises such as, lies live in apartments (SHS, 2005), the majority but not so as to restrict the generality of the of these in quintiles one and two, while the r [...] This fact is illustrated ponent to Heat Smart that offers zero-interest by the change in the cost of heating with fuel loans of $5,000 for home insulation and repairs oil between the 2007–08 and 2008–09 heating (Heat Smart, 2008d) and $500 for the purchase seasons, when the collapse in the price of crude of Energy Star oil furnaces or water heaters (Heat oil could be expected to reduce the cost of