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With warmer-than-normal temperatures in most provinces, natural gas sales showed large decreases in the residential and commercial sectors in October.
Sales to the commercial sector declined by 26.1%, followed by a reduction of 22.3% in the residential sector. The industrial sector (including direct sales) showed an increase in sales of 6.9%.
Natural gas sales totalled 5 527 million cubic metres, down 3.8% from October 2006.
On a year-to-date basis, sales at the end of October were up 4.0% compared with the same 10-month period in 2006, in the wake of across-the-board increases in all sectors.
The volume of sales for the residential and the commercial sectors increased by 6.5% and 4.3%, respectively. As well, sales of natural gas to the industrial sector (including direct sales) were up 2.9% so far in 2007.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2149.
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