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CANADA’S - Natural Gas

4 Apr 2022

disburses or flows back into the well, leaving a thin layer We will continue to advance, collaborate on and communicate of sand to prop open the cracks, allowing the natural gas 5 technologies and best practices that reduce the potential to flow to the surface. [...] 12 13 NATURAL GAS Uses NATURAL GAS USE Natural gas is From heating homes to generating electricity, currently natural gas meets about 36% of Canada’s energy needs. [...] NATURAL GAS USE BY SECTOR IN CANADA, 2020 Source: Statistics Canada COMMERCIAL 16% RESIDENTIAL 15% INDUSTRIAL 69% 14 15 USES NATURAL GAS Uses INDUSTRIAL - Natural gas accounts for about 70% of the PRODUCTS energy used in the industrial sector both as a heat source Raw natural gas is comprised mainly of methane, which – for example, in making steel – and as a feedstock in the is also the largest pa. [...] Source: CERI, 2019 oil (non-oil sands) and natural gas operators made payments in the form of royalties, and socio-economic and community benefits in the amount of $55 million to Indigenous governments of Canada. [...] In 2014, Shell and the Town of Fox Creek NATURAL GAS IS A CLEAN ENERGY SOURCE signed an agreement that allows Shell to use the town’s treated wastewater in its operations and in return, Shell funded the engineering and design to upgrade the 50% 50% NATURAL GAS POWER GENERATION town’s raw water facilities.
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