Lakeshore Natural Gas is wholly-owned by Schreiber, Terrace Bay, Marathon, Manitouwadge and Wawa.
Its agreement with Certarus Limited is for the transportation, storage and supply of compressed natural gas (CNG) for the proposed North Shore Gas Project.
Daryl Skworchinski, CAO for the Town of Marathon and president of Lakeshore Natural Gas, said the gas would be decompressed at a Certarus plant in Red Rock, trucked to delivery points in each community, recompressed into natural gas form, then piped through distribution systems that would be built in each town. It s a very safe process. It s utilized quite extensively in the United States, but it will be the first of its kind in Ontario, Skworchinski said.
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New voluntary program allows customers to support the transition to a clean energy future.
TORONTO, April 6, 2021 /CNW/ - Enbridge Gas announced today, the details of a new voluntary renewable natural gas (RNG) program for its customers that will reduce overall emissions from Ontario s gas supply. Enbridge Gas new OptUp Program will offer residential and small business customers
1 who buy their gas from the utility the option to contribute $2 a month as a cost-effective option to help offset the increased costs to acquire carbon-neutral renewable natural gas (RNG). RNG is generated by capturing and cleaning methane emissions from landfills and other waste sources which would otherwise be released into the air and is then blended it into the natural gas supply, lowering emissions.
George Lefebvre, 80, has a regular if unconventional winter workout routine: lugging logs from the shed to his basement, where his wood-burning furnace is. “It helps keep me tuned up,” says the mayor of Latchford, a town of about 200 people in northeastern Ontario.
Physical benefits aside, it’s a burden he’d rather not deal with at his age. “It’s a very onerous process,” he says, explaining that he orders truckloads of wood and has his son chop up lumber chords when they arrive. Yet it’s a familiar hassle for Latchford residents. The TransCanada pipeline passes through the town, but Latchford does not have access to natural gas, although it’s lobbied both Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments. So residents who can’t afford or don’t want to pay for surging electricity prices for heating are left to find alternatives: wood or propane, mainly.
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Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson has announced the Saugeen First Nation Project, supported by the Ontario Government’s Natural Gas Expansion Program, has connected its first 13 customers to natural gas. The switch to natural gas will save average local households up to 52 per cent off their annual energy bills.
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“Seeing progress on this project is great news for our region and the Saugeen First Nation,” said Thompson. “We welcome the expansion of natural gas in our community and are thrilled that local customers will finally find some relief through this affordable energy source.”
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