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38 THE RURAL VOICE
Underground storage of natural
gas in Ontario dates back to 1915
when, in Welland County, gas from
one reservoir was transferred to
another. However, in the wartime of
1942, Union Gas Limited injected
reformed refinery gas into wells in
Dawn Township. These depleted gas
fields in Dawn were the first in North
America to be used as storage —
with gas from other sources pumped
into the porous rock up to 2000 feet
below the surface during summer
months, and later pumped back out
during winter when demand was
high. The demand for new storage
reservoirs has since fueled new
exploration.
In Ontario, natural gas storage in
"designated storage areas" is
governed by the Ontario Energy
Board Act. In addition, the
requirements of all oil and gas wells,
When southern
Ontario was a
tropical sea
The area has oil and gas
because Southern Ontario literally
came out of the sea. If you live in
Southern Ontario, you've probably
even found evidence of that
yourself — pieces of fossilized
coral, or clam -like brachiopods
("lucky stones" as we called them
as kids). These lived in a tropical
sea that covered Southern Ontario
some 400 million years ago.
Geologists believe this area
was then located pretty much at
the equator before the continent
drifted north. The shallow seas
that periodically covered our area
at that time supported the
formation of reefs — such as
scattered "patch" reefs near the
shores and larger "pinnacle" reefs
in deeper waters. These eventually
became our oil and gas reservoirs.
Geologists believe that as the
marine life became buried in
sediments, the pressure and other
forces turned the trapped remains
of sea creatures into oil and gas.
The marine waters of 400 million
years ago are also believed to be
the source of our salt deposits,
such as those mined in Windsor,
Sarnia and Goderich.0