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With colder-than-normal temperatures across the country, natural gas sales showed large increases in all sectors in December.
Sales to the residential sector jumped 22.6%, followed by a gain of 19.1% in the commercial sector. The industrial sector (including direct sales) showed an increase in sales of 14.0%.
Natural gas sales totalled 8 753 million cubic metres, up 17.5% from December 2006.
Sales at the end of December were up 5.0% from the same 12-month period in 2006, in the wake of across-the-board increases in all sectors. This was the first year since 2003 that the annual volume of sales was up.
The volume of sales for the residential and the commercial sectors posted increases of 7.3% and 5.5%, respectively. As well, sales of natural gas to the industrial sector, including direct sales, were up 3.9% in 2007.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2149.
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