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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 3 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In 2022, buildings accounted for 13 per cent of the country's emissions, making them the third biggest source of greenhouse gases by sector, after oil and gas and transportation.

It was overseen by provincial and territorial regulators whose key goal was to ensure safe and reliable energy at fair rates for customers.

It aimed to incentivize developers "to choose the most cost-effective, energy-efficient choice," but the board was overruled by the Ontario government, so the original plan will go ahead.

Kate Harland, lead author of the Canadian Climate Institute report, said utility regulators' mandates should be changed to include climate targets, as has been done in the U.K. And they could change "obligation to serve rules" in order to consider alternative technologies, such as electrification, energy efficiency measures or thermal networks to provide heating to customers.

It is the perfect method to allow gas utilities to transition and keep or increase their annual profit, while at the same time reducing the customer's energy bills, according to Schulman.

Harland says current incentives alone won't drive down customer demand for gas quickly enough and energy policies need to change.


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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

We can make synthetic methane with renewable energy though. I don't have a problem with building such infrastructure becsuse it can be used with renewable energy

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[-] MikeOToxin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Because eastern Canada still needs the oil subsidies from the Prairies.

Forestry just isn't cutting it out there, and like it or not, the country needs money.

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