City misses fuel targets, aims at GHG emissions instead - Ottawa - CBC News

By Laura Osman, CBC News Ottawa, October 4, 2017

Having failed to meet its own environmental goal of reducing fuel consumption by municipal vehicles in 2016, the City of Ottawa will begin tracking the fleet's environmental impact by a different measure, a city committee decided Wednesday.

The city was aiming to reduce fuel consumption by city vehicles by four per cent by 2016, using 2012 consumption rates as a benchmark. Instead, there was an 11.8 per cent increase.

"In my mind we're going in the wrong direction," Coun. Mathieu Fleury told his colleagues on the city's transportation committee.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/green-house-gas-fuel-city-vehicles-1.4329609

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