TAKE ACTION:
Stop Cascade Natural Gas Line Extension Allowances Practice
Oregon Public Utilities Commission
Reduce global warming. Improve home indoor air pollution. Make communities safer. Lower gas utility bills. Slow natural gas expansion. Tell the Oregon Public Utility Commissioners to end Cascade’s Line Extension Allowances practice!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Attend the OPUC Public Meeting:
What: OPUC Public Meeting RE: Cascade Natural Gas Public Hearing (Docket UG 525)
When: March 3, 2026 (TOMORROW!) 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Where: Online - Go to: OPUC Public Meeting
Click on: "LINK TO PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING" (highlighted in blue)
Let us do the work:
Go to: Stopgas.Org. Click on the “Take Action” button. Complete info. Scroll down and Click “Submit Info” and we will submit a standardized comment letter to OPUC on your behalf.
Write your own email:
Use OPUC’s Public Comment Form
Subject must include, “Docket UG 525”. [Email must be received by 3/10/2026.]
Sample Comments For Testimony or Email
Stop Cascade Natural Gas’ Line Extension Allowance (LEA) practice immediately. This onerous practice is harmful to all Oregonians in multiple ways:
- Existing ratepayers, who have no say in the LEA practice and contracts signed, are forced to subsidize the practice, raising their gas utility bills.
- It gives CNG an unfair advantage because other gas utilities in Oregon have had to phase-out their LEA practice.
- It increases already sky rocketing home prices by encouraging new home builders to add gas infrastructure, making homes more unaffordable.
- It distorts the new home market saturating the market with gas only homes.
- Practically speaking, it unfairly locks in new homeowners, who may not want gas, to live with gas use until they can afford to go “electric.” The swap-out to electric is expensive.
- It contributes to unhealthy home environments, with increased respiratory and cancer risks.
- Because gas is so flammable and explosive, it burdens communities and taxpayers with additional safety protection and monitoring costs.
- It harms all Oregonians by contributing to increased climate change with its extreme weather events and hotter climate fostering heat domes and forest fires.
- Cascade Natural Gas has a civic responsibility to support Oregon’s Climate goals, not work against them.
For all these reasons, Line Extension Allowances are not in the public interest. They should be eliminated immediately.