Natural gas is a critical…

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Natural gas is a critical energy source for our Municipality, ensuring reliable and affordable energy for residents, businesses, and public services. With its underground infrastructure, natural gas provides stability during extreme weather events, minimizing disruptions and enhancing municipal resilience. This reliability is especially crucial for essential facilities like schools, community centers, and emergency services, which depend on uninterrupted energy supply. For our residents, natural gas offers a cost-effective way to heat homes and power businesses, helping to keep taxes manageable and maintaining a high quality of life.

As our municipality continues to grow, natural gas plays a vital role in supporting housing developments and attracting new businesses to our municipality. Rapidly expanding communities like ours cannot solely rely on the electricity grid to meet increasing energy demands. Moreover, industries critical to local economic growth, such as manufacturing, require the flexibility and capacity that natural gas provides. Ensuring a balanced energy mix will allow our municipality to meet today’s energy needs while planning sustainably for the future, fostering economic growth, and creating opportunities for our residents.