Rural Utilities Division, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
The Rural Utilities Branch is responsible for ensuring the safe and orderly development of natural gas distribution systems, conducting technical reviews, issuing approvals, development of policy issues respecting rural gas utility operations and business practices and regulation of gas co-ops.
Under the program, natural gas service has been provided to over 228,000 consumers through 74 participating utilities. Over 141,000 km of natural gas pipelines have been constructed making it the largest rural gas pipeline system in the world.