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Unplugged: How the gas industry is fighting efforts to electrify buildings – RenewEconomy
Gas industry is spending large sums of money on PR and marketing campaigns, astroturfing and front groups to oppose initiatives aimed at curbing direct gas use.
(Editor’s note. This story is based on the US, but the issues consumers, regulators and policy makers are just as valid for Australia, given the push by the ACT to eliminate gas, the local ad campaign by the gas industry and the frustrated attempts by some communities to exclude mandatory gas networks).
Just over a year ago, the city of Berkeley, California, passed into law a first-in-the-nation ordinance prohibiting natural gas hookups in new buildings, a move that alarmed the gas industry.
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