Union Gas Limited is a major Canadian natural gas utility that provides energy delivery and related services to 1.1 million residential, commercial and industrial customers in over 400 communities in northern, southwestern and eastern Ontario.

Its distribution service area extends throughout northern Ontario from the Manitoba border to the North Bay/Muskoka area, through southwestern Ontario from Windsor to just west of Toronto, and across eastern Ontario from Port Hope to Cornwall. The Company also provides natural gas storage and transportation services for other utilities and energy market participants in Ontario, Quebec and the United States.

Union's storage and transmission system forms an important link in the movement of natural gas from Western Canadian and U.S. supply basins to Central Canadian and Northeast U.S. markets. Union Gas has assets of approximately $4 billion and employs about 2,200 people. Union Gas is a member of the Westcoast Energy group of companies.

Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Westcoast Energy operates a $15-billion network of natural gas gathering, processing, transmission, storage and distribution assets, and related power generation, international, financial, information technology and energy services businesses. A Westcoast Energy subsidiary, Union Gas has assets of $4 billion.

Ms. Ruth A. Dekker PE
Chatham, Ontario, N7M-5M1
Phone: 519-436-5470
rdekker@uniongas.com

Mr. Murray Smith
Chatham, N7M-5M1
Phone: 519-436-4600
msmith@uniongas.com

Mr. Neil Macfadyen
Chatham, Ontario, N7M 5M1
Phone: 519-436-4671
nmacfadyen@uniongas.com

Web site: www.uniongas.com