High gas prices hitting Atlantic Canada hard due to region’s reliance on heating oil
, but residents of the Atlantic region are being particularly hard hit, in part, because of their heavy reliance on oil to heat their homes.
Fuel oil composed roughly four per cent of residential heating energy in 2019 across Canada, but that number jumped to almost 50 per cent in Prince Edward Island. About 36 per cent of residential heating energy in Nova Scotia was from fuel oil in 2019, while it was 22 per cent in Newfoundland and Labrador and seven per cent in New Brunswick.Story continues below advertisement
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