New developments and buildings undergoing major renovations could be banned from connecting to gas as early as November, under legislation proposed to power the ACT's transition to an all-electric city.
The ACT government is pushing its no-new-gas-connection legislation forward in an effort to stem reliance on fossil fuels, its figures revealing 80 per cent of all new homes in Canberra are still connecting to the gas network and new connections are ongoing for business and industrial uses.
