Natural gas
Natural gas is a clean-burning fuel, found in abundance in Canada as a mixture of gases in porous rock formations. It is extracted from the ground, processed to remove impurities and compressed to be stored and transported by pipeline.
Canada is one of the largest producers of natural gas in the world. Annual production in 2002 was 170 billion cubic metres, mostly from Alberta and British Colombia, and there are over 1 trillion cubic metres of proven reserves. Major high-pressure pipelines carry natural gas from its source to pipelines of natural-gas utility companies, which in turn take it to your home for heating or to a retail gasoline station to be compressed, stored and used to fuel vehicles.
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