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Columbia Gas Teams With The Nature Conservancy To Promote Electronic Billing, Save Trees
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Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania and its parent company NiSource Inc. recently launched a campaign to encourage customers to make a new year’s resolution to go green.
For every customer enrolling in the company’s Direct e-Bill paperless billing service through April 1, Columbia will contribute $10 to The Nature Conservancy to help rebuild the Atlantic Forest through their Plant a Billion Trees program.
At a dollar per tree, the contribution is equivalent to planting 10 trees on behalf of each customer who participates in the program. The company’s minimum contribution will be $100,000 with a maximum contribution of $200,000.
A check will be presented to the Pennsylvania Chapter of The Nature Conservancy in coordination with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, April 22.
Columbia’s free electronic billing service is a convenient way for customers to manage their account and help the environment at the same time. Instead of receiving a paper bill in the mail, customers receive an e-mail notification that their Columbia Gas bill is available to view on the company’s website the same day it’s rendered.
The email provides a link to the website, where customers can also pay their bill at no charge and perform other business on their account, such as signing up for the Budget Payment Plan. The e-mail notification also includes a link to electronic versions of bill inserts and other important account information.
Columbia’s partnership with The Nature Conservancy provides customers a unique opportunity to act locally to help address the global environmental issue. According to a recent study, the average household receives approximately 19 bills and statements, and makes approximately 7 paper payments per month.
Collectively, the production and transportation of those paper bills, statements and payments consume 755 million pounds of paper, 9 million trees and 512 million gallons of gasoline. Columbia customers can calculate their own financial paper footprint on the company’s website.
The Nature Conservancy’s reforestation effort to Plant a Billion Trees will restore more than 2.5 million acres of land, and will remove 10 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, the equivalent of removing two million cars from the road.
Only seven percent of the Atlantic Forest’s original area -- which was the size of the U.S. eastern seaboard from Maine to South Carolina – survives. The Atlantic Forest helps regulate the atmosphere and stabilize global climate, including the communities Columbia Gas serves.
For more information, download a description of Columbia’s Direct e-Bill paperless billing service and other online self-service options, visit the Columbia Gas website or call 1-888-460-4332.
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