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With colder than normal temperatures in all Western provinces, residential natural gas sales were up in January.
Natural gas sales totalled 9 072 million cubic metres, up 3.8% from January 2007.
Sales volume to the residential sector increased 5.6% while industrial and direct sales gained 4.7%. Sales in the commercial sector edged down 0.7%.
| Natural gas sales | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008p | January 2007 | January 2007 to January 2008 | |||
| thousands of cubic metres | % change | ||||
| Total sales | 9 071 591 | 8 740 176 | 3.8 | ||
| Residential | 2 810 727 | 2 662 400 | 5.6 | ||
| Commercial | 1 878 892 | 1 892 017 | -0.7 | ||
| Industrial and direct | 4 381 972 | 4 185 759 | 4.7 | ||
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Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2149.
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