From Dogwood
Electric heat pumps are “six to eight times more efficient than heating with gas.” This is one of dozens of sentences Fortis BC deleted from a study they commissioned about the future of natural gas in B.C.
“It's very misleading,” said one Nanaimo city councillor. “Omission of information is lying.”
Fortis knows its profits are threatened if municipalities switch from gas to electricity.
#Fortis #gaslighting #lying #bcpoli
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The privately-owned utility has plans to hook up thousands of new buildings to the fracked methane being pumped out of B.C.’s Montney Shale – Canada’s biggest carbon bomb.
After tampering with their own study, Fortis sent it to staff at several cities to convince them to stick with gas.
The municipalities Fortis is actively deceiving are already struggling to keep their residents safe from climate disasters.
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Methane is the most potent greenhouse gas: fracking for more of it will worsen the climate crisis in B.C. As Fortis BC proved in their own report, renewable energy is cheaper, more efficient and better for the climate than gas.
Fortis is selling themselves as a clean energy company. But they’re not. They’re fuelling fracking, one of the most polluting fossil fuel operations there is. And they’re misleading the public to prolong our dependence on gas.
https://www.nsnews.com/highlights/redacted-bc-gas-report-sparks-claims-of-misinformation-7335878
Stephen Rees 
