ATLANTA, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The first 200 visitors
to the Georgia Natural Gas (GNG) venue at Atlantic Station's
Earth Day Fair will receive a free
sapling (one per household) to celebrate the event. Provided
to GNG by the Georgia Forestry Commission, the young trees are
native to Georgia and ideal for
planting and cultivating immediately. The trees will be
distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
GNG representatives will be available at the Earth Day Fair to share weatherization tips with
the public and to provide copies of It's a Natural --
the company's guide to free or low-cost energy-efficient solutions
for the home. The company's representatives also will share the
internal sustainability efforts under way at GNG's Atlanta headquarters. In 2009 GNG received the
Clean Air Campaign's Pace Award and, for the second year in
a row, the Metro Atlanta Better Business Bureau's Torch
Award for Community Service.
Georgia Natural Gas is Georgia's first and only natural
gas marketer to obtain recycled natural gas from a landfill.
GNG is using a waste material as a clean-burning resource for
Georgia. Thanks to new technology,
methane gas at Georgia's Live Oak
Landfill is collected and made ready for consumer use. It becomes
recycled natural gas when it is processed and injected into the
existing natural gas distribution system for delivery to homes and
businesses.
Georgia Natural Gas serves more than half a million residential,
commercial and industrial customers throughout Georgia. GNG is part of SouthStar Energy
Services, a Georgia-based joint
venture between AGL Resources (NYSE: AGL) and Piedmont Natural Gas
Co. (NYSE: PNY). SouthStar also operates in Ohio as Ohio Natural Gas, in Florida as Florida Natural Gas, in the
Carolinas as Piedmont Energy, and in other parts of the Southeast
as SouthStar Energy Services. For more information, visit
www.onlygng.com.
SOURCE Georgia Natural Gas