It appears just about everyone who was surveyed in the Kincardine/Arran-Elderslie and Huron-Kinloss areas, wants to go to Natural gas for heating.
Penetangore Regional Economic Development Corporation chair, Jim Prenger, says Ipsos-Reid conducted a survey and found 81 per cent of both residential users and businesses asked, would switch to Natural gas if it was available.
Union Gas commissioned the study in Arran-Elderslie, Huron-Kinloss and Kincardine with a total of 174 interviews recently done.
Prenger says next they’ll get figures on what the cost will be to get the service into homes.
He expects that report to come late next month or in January 2012.
After that, the affected communities will make the decision whether to pay the cost of bringing natural gas service to the community.
The goal of the study is to determine the support for natural gas availability within the three municipalities.
But other findings with the survey also exceed the expectations of the three Mayors and the natural gas project team.
Arran-Elderslie Mayor Paul Eagleson says this is the closest we have ever come to achieving our natural gas goals.
Based on the results, Huron-Kinloss Mayor Mitch Twolan is more optimistic this time around, even with a number of failed attempts to acquire natural gas in the past.
Based in Kincardine, the Penetangore Regional Economic Development Corporation is facilitating the development of the project, and it welcomes letters of support from citizens and businesses in the area communities under study.
