When mercury falls below -20 C, electric heat pumps are inefficient for heating northern homes.
Northern B.C. communities should be exempt from the five per cent provincial sales tax on fossil fuels for heating, Union of BC Municipalities delegates voted Sept. 22.
Dawson Creek said the resolution should be endorsed considering the inefficiencies of electric heat pumps in heating northern homes when temperatures drop to -20 degrees Celsius or below. However, the committee noted that, in 2013, members endorsed a resolution asking the province to reinstate the PST in an equitable manner to:
• introduce former exemptions on production machinery and equipment for equipment purchased by district energy systems; and
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