Bow River Gas Co-opBox 66 (1301 1st Ave. N) , Vauxhall, Alberta, Canada

Bow River Gas Co-op has been serving its members for over 50 years and continues to provide gas services to more than 1500 customers. Incorporated in 1965, the Bow River Gas Co-op provides gas utility service to parts of the County of Newell No.4, County of Vulcan, the MD of Taber, and the County of Lethbridge, covering more than 1565 sq. miles. The first few years were rough for the Co-op because of the many canals that had to be traversed; however, the Co-op survived and by 1985 began to make a profit for the members. In 2012 while continuing to improve the gas distribution network, the Bow River Gas Co-op amalgamated with the SR&B Gas Co-op to continue to provide safe, efficient, reliable and reasonably priced gas to all the members.     All natural gas that is consumed by the gas Co-ops across the province since the inception of the Rural Gas Act has been purchased through a government agency called Gas Alberta. In 1998, the government was getting out of the business of doing business and privatized Gas Alberta. Gas Alberta is a wholly owned corporation with all of the Gas Co-ops, some small municipalities and native bands as the shareholders. Gas Alberta is now operated by the shareholders and purchases all the gas that the shareholders use from the market.     At the same time that Gas Alberta was privatized, the corporation also became responsible for the delivery of Mercaptan (odorant) to the more than 500 gas sales stations across the province. The decision was made to operate and deliver the Mercaptan in house and three of the Gas Alberta shareholders applied to complete the deliveries. The Bow River Gas Co-op was chosen to house the bulk odorant station and complete the deliveries for Southern Alberta. We also deliver to a mini bulk stations in Northern Alberta that serves the Northern half of the province. In 2012 it became apparent that there was a demand for industrial contracts, along with the oil and gas industry Mercaptan sales. Gas Alberta in conjunction with the Federation of Alberta Gas Co-ops and the three odorant providers adopted the trade name of Alberta Odorant Services and now operate under this name. Please refer to the section on Services provided for more information.     Approximately 20 years ago the Bow River Gas Co-ops Board of Directors saw a need within our franchise area to provide gas fitting services. The Bow River Gas Co-op provides this service to our members, domestic customers and industrial users. Please refer to the section on Services provided for more information.     Bow River is one of 18 rural based shareholders of Corridor Communications Inc., which operates as C.C.I. Wireless. C.C.I. Wireless has 147 carrier grade towers in rural Alberta and provides high speed internet services to many customers in rural Alberta.

Gas Fitting

• Inspect furnaces
• Install and repair all natural gas appliances
• Complete all piping needed for new appliances
• Run secondary gas lines to get gas anywhere it is needed in a yard

Line Locating

Bow River Gas Co-op is a member of the Alberta One Call network and is happy to complete any gas line locate request. Once the request is placed with Alberta One Call, we will come out and locate our gas lines. Our mandate is to complete all request within two full working days of receiving the request, however, sometimes it may take an extra day for the hard to find ones or when there are high volumes of first calls.

Industrial/Commercial Gas Services

The Bow River Gas Co-op supplies and has many Industrial/Commercial gas customers (Non-Core gas sales) who use more than 10,000 gigajoules/yr. We can provide turn-key service from supply line construction to sales or transportation contracts.

Odorant - Mercaptan

The Bow River Gas Co-op provides odorant services to many commercial contracts. These contracts range from small odorant containers to high volume users complete with storage tanks and Odorization systems. If you are in need of odorant, please call the office at 403-654-2233.  The Bow River Gas Co-op has 25,000 liters of Mercaptan storage located near Vauxhall, Alberta. The Co-op also delivers to 2 other mini bulk storage facilities in Northern Alberta. We also deliver odorant to over 200 natural gas sales stations in the southern half of the province.