Your energy bills are going up... thanks to LNG exports
January 23, 2025
Eoin Finn
Your gas bills are going up
As nearly 50% of British Columbians are struggling to pay the bills, FortisBC has hiked gas prices by 17.5 percent this month to pay for new pipelines, including the upfront costs of the disastrous Eagle Mountain to Woodfibre gas pipeline.
How do you feel about paying for a billionaire's pipeline? Personally, I'm pretty ticked off about it.
Gas prices are projected to increase further when BC starts to export LNG later this year. Both the U.S. and Australia saw significant increases in domestic gas prices when these countries started exporting LNG.
LNG exports cost US customers more than $100 billion dollars over a sixteen-month period, as gas prices for local customers soared.
Your electricity bills will go up too
BC announced last week that it is fast-tracking the permitting for a new $3 billion transmission line for power-hungry LNG projects. The BC government hopes to use BC's limited clean electricity to electrify the oil and gas sector. This could result in a multi-billion dollar public subsidy to greenwash fossil fuels.
If LNG projects are provided with public power at discount rates, all BC Hydro ratepayers will effectively be subsidizing these massive fossil fuel export projects.
We need to protect public power to build a safer and more affordable future for BC. Why are Premier David Eby and Minister Adrian Dix giving away BC's public power to subsidize foreign-owned LNG export companies?
People across BC are already struggling to make ends meet. LNG exports will make life even more unaffordable.
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Take action! Meet with your MLA!
The BC NDP promised to focus on kitchen table issues that would make life more affordable for British Columbians. Instead, they're doubling down on fracking and LNG exports that will worsen the climate crisis, impact our health, and increase our gas and electricity bills.
They need to hear from you! Can you meet with your MLA to deliver a copy of the 2024 Progress Report and demand that they commit to urgent climate action and stop subsidizing fossil fuels?
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As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
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For my grandchildren,
Eoin Finn
Board Chair, My Sea to Sky
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