{"id":605777,"date":"2026-04-15T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605777\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:53:10","slug":"natural-gas-line-strikes-drop-in-nanaimo-but-still-leads-vancouver-island-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605777\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas line strikes drop in Nanaimo, but still leads Vancouver Island | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ‘call before you dig’ messaging appears to be getting through to people in B.C., with a continued decline in the amount of damage to natural gas line infrastructure in Nanaimo and across B.C. (Image Credit: Fortis BC)<\/p>\n

By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff<\/p>\n

call before you dig<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tApr 15, 2026 | 5:23 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

NANAIMO \u2014 Messaging to \u2018call before you dig\u2019 appears to be getting through to local contractors and homeowners.<\/p>\n

Data from Fortis BC shows the Harbour City joined Saanich in leading Vancouver Island for the highest number of incidents involving damage to natural gas lines, with 14 in 2025, part of 109 across Vancouver Island and around 760 province-wide.<\/p>\n

Ada Nadison, Fortis BC\u2019s manager of the utility\u2019s public safety program, said there\u2019s a mix of frustration and empathy around these preventable incidents, with accurate mapping and use of services like BC 1 Call<\/a> just part of the solution to stopping them.<\/p>\n

\u201cDepending on where you are in the province, those lines could have been installed maybe in the 1950s or 1960s, and as you can imagine, over the years, a lot can change to the ground from when it\u2019s installed, whether it be erosion, flooding, grading changes, or landscaping.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ‘call before you dig’ messaging appears to be getting through to people in B.C., with a continued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-605777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-central-vancouver-island","12":"tag-nanaimo","13":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news","15":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","16":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-oceanside","19":"tag-parksville","20":"tag-qualicum","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}