[LINK] "The Only Place in America Still Burning More of Canada's Gas"

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Bloomberg's Christine Buurma looks at natural gas exports from Canada to the northeastern US.

When it comes to importing natural gas from Canada, the U.S. Northeast is the exception to the rule.

Cold weather and pipeline bottlenecks mean the region’s appetite for supply from the Great White North hasn’t diminished, even as shale output pushes U.S. gas production to a fifth straight annual record. Canadian gas deliveries to the Northeast will climb 16 percent in the seven days ending Nov. 6 from a week earlier, while shipments via pipeline to the Midwest and Northwest will drop, according to Energy Aspects Ltd.

Imports to the U.S. from Canada declined for the four years through 2014. The Northeast has been an outlier because pipeline constraints make it difficult to ship adequate supplies to the region from within the U.S., especially in the colder months, when heating demand is highest. Meanwhile, slumping Canadian prices are driving producers there to seek customers south of the border.