It’s a new year, full of new opportunities for fossil fuel companies to extract more profit from pensioners, small businesses and working families.
Private utility FortisBC is jacking up gas bills, even though its parent company raked in $420 million in profits last quarter. No, it has nothing to do with the carbon tax.
Fortis says it needs our money to build new pipelines – and pay oil companies like Shell and BP to capture methane from landfills in the U.S. so it can brand itself as green.
The rate hikes mean a million B.C. households must pay more to heat their homes and cook food. And businesses that burn lots of gas – like farms – will pass higher costs on to all of us.
But the squeeze isn’t over. Once LNG Canada begins gas exports from Kitimat later this year, analysts expect B.C. gas bills to go even higher.
Learn more in our latest blog post. Then share it with friends and family who should know why their gas bills are going up.
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