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Originally Posted by cal_guy
Natural gas already accounts about half the heating in Canada with electricity from hydro accounting for most of the rest. The only place that still uses heating oil to a significant degree is in the Atlantic provinces which are difficult to supply with gas because of their isolated location and their small population.
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That could be, but where I live there is no access to natural gas as a heating/fuel source, and people are stuck using hydro or propane. Hydro is cheap, but prices are going up, and the cost to develop NEW hydro is also super expensive.
Seems to me like hooking up more communities, towns and rural areas with natural gas would be a good way to offset the growing cost of developing hydro. Seeing yearly 5-10% price increases on hydro and billion dollar cost overruns on hydro development makes it obvious.
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Natural Gas is between a quarter and half the price that it was 10 years ago.
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Which is good for consumers. If we want to help the suppliers we need to grow demand.