‘Already sweltering’

Dear Editor:

RE: ‘Short-sighted bill,’ March 7.

Thanks to our shortsighted provincial government, Enbridge fuel customers will continue to pay for the expansion of natural gas lines into new Ontario housing developments, and – unwittingly – add more greenhouse gas emissions to heat up our already-sweltering planet.

As letter writer Gord Cumming said in last week’s Advertiser, “Continuing to subsidize more fossil gas use in the midst of a climate crisis is lunacy.”

The Ontario Energy Board decided in December it was time to end these subsidies, but Mr. Ford announced immediately his government would overrule this very sane recommendation.

A more farsighted leader would be chomping at the bit to promote – and maybe even subsidize! – super-efficient heat pump technology for heating and cooling in all new subdivisions.

Liz Armstrong,
Erin