Economic benefits

Natural Gas in Quebec – Quick Facts

• 12 percent of Quebec’s total energy consumption comes from natural gas.
• Approximately 130,000 households in Quebec use natural gas, primarily for home heating and cooking.
• 100 percent of Quebec’s natural gas is currently imported from western Canada.
• $2 billion per year is transferred from Quebec to western Canada, approximately the same value of what Quebec imports from France.
• Quebecers currently spend $10 billion per year on combined oil and gas imports
• Quebec has enough natural gas to meet its own needs for well over 100 years.
• By 2015, producing natural gas in Quebec could boost Quebec’s economy by $789.8 million and increase government revenues in Quebec by $232 million.
• Natural gas production could create 7,500 jobs in Quebec, based upon the development of 250 wells (the number needed to replace all gas imports from western Canada).
• For every $1 invested into oil and gas production, $3 of economic benefits result from direct, indirect, and induced business impacts.
• Natural gas in Quebec is the cleanest in Canada: Gas located in the Utica shale formation has the lowest carbon content of all natural gas in Canada.