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The Alberta Natural Gas Reference Price is a monthly weighted average field price of all Alberta gas sales, as determined by the Alberta Department of Energy through a survey of actual sales transactions.
The Natural Gas Reference Price is a critical input into the valuation of the Crown's royalty volume. In the chart or data table, select the month to obtain the monthly reference prices for natural gas, methane, ethane, propane, butanes, pentanes and sulphur in PDF.
- Overview
- On this page
- Fuel charge rates – April 2023 to April 2030
- Conversion factors
- Historical fuel charge rates – April 2019 to March 2023
The tables on this page provide the fuel charge rates for each fuel type and combustible waste covered under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and its regulations.
•Fuel charge rates – April 2023 to April 2030
•Table 1 – Fuel charge rates for Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan
•Table 2 – Fuel charge rates for Nunavut and Yukon
•Conversion factors
•Historical fuel charge rates – April 2019 to March 2023
•Table 3 – Historical fuel charge rates for Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan
The rates in Tables 1 and 2 reflect a pricing trajectory for each fuel type and combustible waste from April 1, 2023 to April 1, 2030. The rates also reflect a carbon pollution price that will increase from $65 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in 2023 to $170 per tonne by 2030. The rates are based on global warming potential factors and emission factors used by Environment and Climate Change Canada to report Canada’s emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Note that the rates for aviation gasoline and turbo aviation fuel in Nunavut and Yukon remain at $0.
In the Act, the rate for marketable natural gas is applied in dollars per cubic metre and the rate for petroleum coke is applied in dollars per litre. However, the industry has indicated that the standard units of measure for deliveries of these two fuels differ from what is set out in the Act. As a result, the Canada Revenue Agency provides conver...
Table 3 – Historical fuel charge rates for Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan
New Brunswick ceased to be a listed province effective April 1, 2020. As such, only the rates from April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020 applied in New Brunswick.
Dec 3, 2021 · Rates for Listed Provinces. Table 1 presents fuel charge rates that would apply in listed provinces – currently Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. These rates would become effective as of April 2023, with future increases effective as of April of the year noted in the table.
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The following charts illustrate the daily and monthly index prices of natural gas for the current and prior month. Alberta Natural Gas Prices - Current Month Actual prices are based on a volume weighted average of transacted prices for all physically delivered natural gas at the Alberta AB-NIT market center.
Nov 1, 2021 · Since the fall of 2016, Alberta’s price of natural gas has spent approximately 85% of the time under $3.00/GJ, and 75% of the time priced less than $2.50/GJ. The most recent 5-year average price comes in at $2.42/GJ, which means the recent increase to $3.87/GJ amounts to a 60% price increase.
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