SaskPower will be looking in to making changes in their operations for 2017. Preliminary talks have started about how ammendments in their regulations, but nothing has been solidified. 

With that said, it's best to understand what may come into play in the following months. 

"For example, we changed the definition for the word 'customer'. In the past, that term no longer applied to people who had our service in the past, but for a variety of reasons, had their natural gas cut off. So, even though we had infrastructure in their property and had the meter on the side of the building, they were no longer a customer," shared Casey McLeod, Senior Communications Consultant for the Crown Corporation. 

The reason why they are looking to change that definition is to be able to do routine maintenance checks on their infrastructure, even if they don't have service running through. 

As well, they are refreshing some of their rules on the field, particularly their TransGas high pressure transition line. 

"We also extended the distance within the 'tolerance zone' for those lines, so we expanded the area where you would have to fall under our regulation when working around that."

"There will be some situations within the regulation where we would need permits from contractors or homeowners when they are digging around SaskEnergy lines that they may not have needed before. That's what we're wroking on; sorting out the processes, what that will look like, and how it will affect homeowners and contractors," McLeod added.

"Anything that we can do to ensure the safety of our customers, the contractors working around our lines and the public. We're making these changes with that in mind."

There are no specifics to what SaskEnergy is cooking up at this time. However, they are looking into releasing more information in the next coming weeks.