[Leon Della Bosca]

A law prohibiting the use of fossil gas in homes and businesses should be implemented in the nation’s capital as early as November, following a parliamentary vote on Thursday.

The ACT’s Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Natural Gas Transition) Amendment Bill aims to establish the legal framework to end new gas network connections.

The ACT sources all of its electricity from 100 per cent renewables. As a result, households in the territory have largely been shielded from huge energy bill increases felt throughout the rest of the nation.

Any new fossil fuel gas connections will cease before 2045, the same date as the territory’s net zero emissions target.

The gas ban would put the territory well ahead of the rest of Australia on electrification, which many experts say is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to slash energy emissions and deliver cost of living relief.

Victoria’s ‘gas substitution roadmap’ – which incentivises households to invest in efficient electric alternatives to gas for home heating and hot water – puts the southern state close behind in the fossil-fuel free energy stakes.

Would you, provided you had incentive, remove natural gas heating and cooking from your home? What do you think could be done to hasten the nation’s path to renewable energy?

[OzJames70]

So, who is going to pay for this wonderful government decision? The BCA and Councils have ignored global warming and allowed homes to be built with gas, and now we just unilaterally tell owners find a replacement. Maybe those who made obscene profits building homes should have to retrofit them to another energy source.

[Jacquie Jenkins]

It might work in a little town like Canberra, but the big cities? – not likely and it shouldn’t be applied retrospectively, only to new builds.

[Jacka]

The end of gas would be a very good thing. Far better to cook with than electricity, however that’s where it ends. Gas is a very dangerous commodity. It can destroy/level homes unit blocks leisure boats etc. As Australia has a seemingly endless supply of coal and as Australia puts out 0.0 something emissions in comparison to the rest of the world, China, India, USA, the list goes on, (leave out per capita, the greatest nonsense of statistics gathering under the sun) coal powered generators should be kept in action until far cheaper alternative can be found in the future. The city of New York, Yes A Single City, is responsible for more pollution than whole of Australia a Country. Do your sums, you are being Hoodwinked. If you wish to save the Earth, deal with the real problem, overpopulation, that’s the greatest problem this planet needs to address. Jacka.

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