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Experts expect natural gas to rise over next two years

Natural gas prices have been at record-lows for a while now, but almost three-quarters of respondents to an RBC Capital Markets and Economist Intelligence Unit survey expect those prices will start creeping up in the future.

Seventy-three per cent of respondents reported that they expect the price of natural gas to increase 10 per cent or more in the next five years. In the short-term, 87 per cent of respondents expect natural gas prices to stay the same or increase in the next two years.

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