A plan to have EPCOR supply natural gas services to Kincardine, Arran-Elderslie, and Huron-Kinloss still has the support of the province.
Kincardine Deputy Mayor Jacqueline Faubert says she met with the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Energy, MPP Bob Delaney, over a leaked report suggesting the province will phase out the use of natural gas for home heating.
She says she received "100% reassurance that the government is still committed to natural gas expansion in rural Ontario, and he told us to basically view the leaked report that came out last week as inaccurate."
Faubert says Kincardine, Arran Elderslie and Huron Kinloss will now await word from the Ontario Energy Board on changing regulations to allow expansion to rural areas.
The group has given the rights to natural gas distribution to EPCOR of Alberta.
