Watershed at a Glance. The Cannon River watershed is located south of the Twin Cities and encompasses areas of Dakota, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Steele, Rice and Waseca counties. The watershed drains approximately 1,460 square miles through two main channels, the Cannon and Straight Rivers, to the Mississippi at Red Wing.
While some large industrial, commercial, and electric generation customers receive natural gas directly from high capacity interstate and intrastate pipelines (usually contracted through natural gas marketing companies), most other users receive natural gas from their local gas utility, also called a local distribution company (LDC).
Natural gas is one of the cleanest burning fossil fuels. Natural gas can form over time from almost any organic material. It is generally located deep underground in porous rock or trapped between more solid rock formations. The first natural gas well was drilled in 1883 in a field near Medicine Hat, Alberta.A gigajoule (GJ), a unit for measuring natural gas, is the energy equivalent of about 30 litres of gasoline. The average Albertan household uses about 120 GJs of natural gas a year.About 67 per cent of Canada s natural gas production is from Alberta. Alberta s total marketable natural gas production, including coalbed methane, was 3.72 trillion cubic feet in 2014.atural gas is one of the cleanest burning fossil fuels. Natural gas can form over time from almost any organic material. It is generally located deep underground in porous rock or trapped between more solid rock formations. The first natural gas well was drilled in 1883 in a field near Medicine Hat, Alberta.