Alton Gas Refuses Public Examination of Consumer Savings Promise – Halifax Media Co-op

June 10, 2016

In an earlier Media Coop article, we took a stab at putting under the microscope the Alton Gas claim of $17million annual savings for Nova Scotia consumers. But it looked then like all the available documents had all of the numbers redacted- blacked out.

There are two main drivers to how much savings gas consumers might see as a result of gas storage being available in Nova Scotia. The first driver is the amount of the difference between regional prices for gas in the summer and winter, when supply cost is considerably higher. The second driver is the storage cost that Heritage pays for putting into storage the lower cost summer gas that they will draw out in the winter.

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