Residential, Commercial Sector Sales Fall Substantially

摘要

Higher natural gas sales to the industrial sector for October were not enough to compensate for substantial volume declines to the residential and commercial sectors compared to 2006, Statistics Canada reports.rn"With warmer-than-normal temperatures in most provinces, natural gas sales showed large decreases in the residential and commercial sectors in October," StatsCan said. Gas sales to these two sectors are the most influenced by weather conditions - particularly in Ontario and Alberta, which are the biggest markets for domestic transactions.rnOntario is the biggest market for Canadian domestic sales to the residential sector, usually about 200 million cubic metres more than the next closest region - Alberta. On the commercial side, Ontario also sales represent nearly a difference of nearly 200 million cubic metres difference compared to the next closest region, which again is Alberta.