Affordable Natural Gas Energy Drives the Economy

The Canadian Gas Association’s members representing natural gas distribution utilities, employ over 12,500 Canadians on a full-time basis. A further 29,600 persons are directly employed in the upstream extraction and pipeline transmission segments of the industry. The real employment opportunity is represented by the benefit affordable energy delivers as a competitive advantage — attracting commercial and industrial employers and creating many indirect jobs because of it.

Source: CGA and Statistics Canada

Natural gas is less than half the cost of other competing fuel options in Canada. Residential consumers can save between $500 and $2,300 per year by switching to natural gas. Families who save money on energy costs introduce those savings back into the economy and that helps support the creation of further goods and services.