Who We Are

Heritage Gas Limited is a Nova Scotia-based company formed for the purpose of obtaining and operating a full regulation class natural gas distribution franchise for Nova Scotia. It is founded by a strong ownership group that together have experience in natural gas distribution and strong roots in Nova Scotia. SaskEnergy Inc. is the majority shareholder with 50.1 percent, while Scotia Investments Limited owns 25 percent and AltaGas Utility Holdings (Nova Scotia) Inc. owns 24.9 percent. Heritage Gas will build on all three companies' decades of experience in designing, constructing and operating natural gas distribution and transmission systems.

Heritage Gas is committed to building a natural gas distribution system in Nova Scotia. It believes a natural gas distribution system must be grounded by sound economic principles. Heritage Gas' philosophy is to obtain customer commitment and then build infrastructure. Using this principle, development will occur as customer commitment is confirmed.

For 45 years, SaskEnergy has been committed to providing complete natural gas service in Saskatchewan. Currently it has over 63,000 kilometres of distribution pipeline, 13,500 kilometres of high pressure transmission network supplying natural gas to homes, farms, commercial and industrial customers, in 585 communities across Saskatchewan and Manitoba. SaskEnergy has over 322,000 customers and successfully provides cost-effective natural gas service to over 93 percent of customers within a service territory six times the size of Nova Scotia.

Scotia Investments Limited, a private investment holding company incorporated in 1945, is owned by the Jodrey family of Hantsport, Nova Scotia. The company has interests across Canada and the United States that encompass such diverse activities as paper, food processing and manufacturing, floral, transportation, real estate development, environmental and waste treatment industries, metal finishing, specialized coatings and health care. In Nova Scotia, Scotia Investments has major interests in Minas Basin Pulp and Power Company Limited (founded by R. A. Jodrey in 1927 and celebrating its 75th anniversary this year), CKF Inc., Maritime Paper Products Limited, Annapolis Group Inc., High Liner Foods Inc., Extendicare Inc. and other operating companies.

AltaGas is Canada's only publicly traded pure play midstream energy Trust. AltaGas moves energy from its source to the end user, adding value through the process. AltaGas has over $900 million of assets and a market capitalization of approximately $450 million. Its steadily expanding asset base, primarily located in Alberta and Saskatchewan, today includes natural gas gathering and processing facilities, interests in ethane and natural gas liquids extraction plants, and transmission pipelines. AltaGas distributes natural gas to Alberta customers through AltaGas Utilities Inc., to customers in the Northwest Territories through the Ikhil Gas Project and is participating in the distribution of  natural gas to Nova Scotians through Heritage Gas Limited. AltaGas provides energy services to customers, including marketing of natural gas and natural gas liquids and sale of power from its power purchase arrangements.