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With colder than normal temperatures in all provinces, natural gas sales showed large increases in all sectors in October. Natural gas sales totalled 5 743 million cubic metres, up 22.7% from October 2005.
| Natural gas sales | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2006p | October 2005 | October 2005 to October 2006 | |||
| thousands of cubic metres | % change | ||||
| Total sales | 5 742 923 | 4 681 666 | 22.7 | ||
| Residential | 1 095 657 | 903 700 | 21.2 | ||
| Commercial | 882 762 | 688 147 | 28.3 | ||
| Industrial and direct | 3 764 504 | 3 089 819 | 21.8 | ||
| Year-to-date | |||||
| 2006p | 2005 | 2005 to 2006 | |||
| thousands of cubic metres | % change | ||||
| Total sales | 54 536 659 | 55 850 564 | -2.4 | ||
| Residential | 12 277 606 | 12 923 875 | -5.0 | ||
| Commercial | 9 170 314 | 9 542 399 | -3.9 | ||
| Industrial and direct | 33 088 739 | 33 384 290 | -0.9 | ||
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Sales to the commercial sector led the way (+28.3%), followed by the industrial and direct sales sector (+21.8%) and the residential sector (+21.2%).
On a year-to-date basis, sales at the end of October were down 2.4% from the same 10-month period last year, in the wake of across-the-board declines in all sectors.
Volume of sales to the industrial sector (including direct sales) has fallen 0.9% so far this year, while sales were down 5.0% in the residential sector and down 3.9% in the commercial sector.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2149.
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