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If you live in Montreal and have an oil furnace, you may want to start looking into replacing it.

“By 2030, the use of heating oil in Montreal will be over,” Mayor Valérie Plante declared Monday, saying the move is part of her administration’s effort to fight climate change.

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The city is setting an example, she said, announcing it will spend $4 million over the next two years to replace oil systems in 18 city-owned buildings that still use the energy source.

Plante said she plans to introduce a bylaw next year that would include an immediate ban on the installation of oil furnaces in new construction.

Industrial and commercial buildings will have to phase out oil-burning heat sources by 2025.

As of 2030, residential properties will not be allowed to heat with oil. The bylaw will apply only to buildings in the city of Montreal; it will not affect demerged suburbs.

The city does not know how many homes have oil furnaces but estimated there are several thousand. Plante said the city plans to do an inventory of such buildings over the next two years.