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PAGE EIGHTEEN ONTARIO TODAY Distribution Network To Supply Ontario Modern fuels for Canada's homes and industries THE BRITISH AMERICAN The British American Qil Company Limited produces safe, clean economical fuels from two natural gas processing plants and six refineries for homes and industries across the nation, A growing nation must have abundant sources of energy, and petroleum and natural gas are expected to meet nearly 70 per cent of Canada's vastly increased energy requirements by 1970, British American is planning and investing now for its contribution to-= and share in-- Canada's fulure, OIL. COMPANY LIMITED SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 17 NP TURAL gas produced in' southwestern Ontario and piped in from western Canada is distributed throughout the province by Ontario firms, There are only two municipal public utilities in the pro- vince distributing gas, at Kingston and Kitchener, All the other distributors are organizations serving many municipalities and townships, and they are owned by many shareholders, Largest of the distributors is Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, which brings natural gas from western Canada, from the Ontario-Manitoba border across northern Ontario southward to Toronto and then north-eastward to Que- bec province, The company supplies the local natural gas distributors and storage firms through numerous delivery, points, To make sure enough gas is available to the various communities on its route, Trans-Canada Pipe Lines maintains six compressor sta- tions on its route through the province, Oldest of the gas distribu- tors is Consumers Gas Co, of Toronto, which has been serving the Toronto area for 112 years, Until 1954 it manufactured gas from coke, but since that time has brought in natural gas, first from the United States via Buffalo, and since late 1958 from western Canada, It was just two years ago that the pipeline from Alberta was completed to Toronto, Consumers Gas and its various subsidiaries supply gas to most of southern On- tario, all the way from the Niagara area to Ottawa, and from Lake Ontario north to Barrie on Lake Simcoe, The company also has subsidiar- ies in northern New York state and in Quebec province in the Montreal area, In all it serves an area of 1,019 square miles and has 7,252 miles of gas mains through its system, It has about half the number of gas consumers in Ontario, Union Gas Co, of Canada, headquartered at Chatham, has a number of subsidiary companies, Together these firms serve southwestern On- tario from Hamilton and en- virons westward to Windsor and northward to Owen Sound. The organization serves over 210,000 custom- ers and has close to 5,000