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The Sask 1 st Call Safety Patrols will enter their third year of operation on May 2 nd, and will continue promoting safe digging across the province until the construction season ends Oct 31 st. Thanks to the Safety Patrols and other damage prevention programs, the Crown utilities have seen a 32 per cent reduction in damage to underground facilities since 2014. “Face-to-face discussion and education are the heart and soul of this program,” said Daryl Posehn, Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Common Ground Alliance (SCGA). “Contractors and homeowners respond very well when a patroller...

A new record for daily natural gas consumption in the province was set last Friday due to the extreme cold temperatures, along with high natural gas consumption from industrial customers and power plants. SaskEnergy set a 24-hour record on Friday, December 16 th, 2016 delivering 1.33 PetaJoules of natural gas to customers, three per cent higher than the record set earlier this year in January 2016. A PetaJoule is a unit of measurement equivalent to one million GigaJoules (GJ) of natural gas – the average home in Saskatchewan consumes about 105 GJ of natural gas annually. Record-setting and...

A new record for daily natural gas consumption in the province was set over the weekend due to the cold temperatures, along with high natural gas consumption and new customer growth. In the 24-hour period on Saturday, January 16 th to Sunday, January 17 th, TransGas, the natural gas transmission subsidiary of SaskEnergy, delivered 1.29 PetaJoules (PJ) of natural gas to its customers in Saskatchewan. This is a two per cent increase over the previous record of 1.27 PJ/day, which was set on January 4 th, 2015. A PetaJoule is a unit of measurement equivalent to one million GigaJoules of natural...