ATCO Gas has a long history of being an active corporate citizen in the communities we serve, work and live in. Each year we work with different organizations to bring some of our flagship programs to your community.
ATCO Gas is committed to the protection and stewardship of the environment. This strongly held value is embedded in our staff training, reflected in our corporate decision making, and integrated into our business strategies. Our Environmental Policy outlines this commitment and our Environment Operating Principles incorporate practices that limit greenhouse gas emissions.
ATCO Gas collects meter readings and uses this measurement information to calculate how much natural gas has been used each charge period. Our company passes this information to your retailer, along with our delivery charges and your retailer passes these costs on to you.
Pipe fusion ceremony during the opening of the Airdrie Operations Centre
ATCO Gas delivers safe, reliable, cost-effective natural gas to Alberta -- and has since 1912. That's why we say we're "Alberta-made". An investor-owned, rate regulated utility, ATCO Gas helps to build communities across the province because our people live, work and volunteer in the communities we serve.
ATCO Gas invested $1.2 million to develop new research focused on determining viable commercial applications for power generated by Canada’s first high voltage, fully operational fuel cell.
Installed at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), the $3.25 million fuel-cell project at the applied technology post-secondary institution is funded in partnership with provincial and federal government agencies.
Read the news release and backgrounder to learn more.
ATCO Gas was nationally recognized at Canada's Climate Change VCR Inc.'s Seventh Annual Leadership Awards in March 2004 for cutting GHG emissions to almost 50 per cent below 1990 levels.
ATCO Gas received Honourable Mention in the Oil and Gas – Pipelines and Natural Gas Distribution category for successfully reducing its 2002 GHG emissions by 6,040 tonnes or 13.3 million pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent from 1990 levels. That’s about the same amount of emissions exhausted by 975 SUVs in one year. ATCO Gas’ 2002 emissions per customer were 49 per cent below 1990 levels.
For more information, read the news release for the award and the backgrounder.
View our ATCO Gas 2007 Action Plan Update for Greenhouse Gas Reduction.
In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Banff National Park, ATCO Gas partnered with several other organizations to set up a new Natural Gas Vehicle fuelling station in Banff.
Using natural gas rather than gasoline to fuel seven vehicles means a 25 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the national park.
ATCO Group is a worldwide organization of companies engaged in Utilities, Energy, Structures & Logistics and Technologies. More information about ATCO can be found on its website at www.atco.com.