{"id":654375,"date":"2022-05-14T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T16:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=206075"},"modified":"2022-05-14T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T16:20:04","slug":"new-gas-industry-astroturf-group-fuelling-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/14\/new-gas-industry-astroturf-group-fuelling-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gas Industry Astroturf Group \u2018Fuelling Canada\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April, the\u00a0Globe &#038; Mail\u00a0published an article on its website extolling the virtues of natural gas appliances in people\u2019s houses.<\/p>\n<p>The story, headlined \u201cWhy natural gas is the smart choice for your new home,\u201d\u00a0has the look and feel\u00a0of actual journalism. It includes statistics about Canada\u2019s \u201creliable\u201d gas industry, a photo of a young couple cooking on their gas range and quotes from Canadian homebuilders and makers of consumer products\u2014such as grills and fireplaces\u2014that use gas.<\/p>\n<p>It looks explicitly designed to appeal to first-time homebuyers.<\/p>\n<p>But even though natural gas\u00a0is a major\u00a0growing source of emissions in the country (Canada is the world\u2019s fourth largest producer of the fossil fuel), the article didn\u2019t once mention climate change, nor the\u00a0potentially severe health impacts\u00a0from breathing in gas fumes.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/new-gas-industry-astroturf-group-fuelling-canada-targets-first-time-homebuyers\/\">New Gas Industry Astroturf Group \u2018Fuelling Canada\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/new-gas-industry-astroturf-group-fuelling-canada-targets-first-time-homebuyers\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, the\u00a0Globe &#038; Mail\u00a0published an article on its website extolling the virtues of natural gas appliances in people\u2019s houses.<br \/>\nThe story, headlined \u201cWhy natural gas is the smart choice for your new home,\u201d\u00a0has the look and feel\u00a0of actual journa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15829,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,5605,5722,267,2173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654376,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654375\/revisions\/654376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}