Gas prices fluctuate across Labrador following PUB pricing review

Alex Kennedy · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 21, 2025 4:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

The terms of astir fuels saw fluctuations crossed Labrador pursuing the Public Utilities Board's reappraisal of substance pricing successful the portion Friday, while Newfoundland is seeing a tiny summation successful state prices.

The PUB submitted its Labrador pricing reappraisal to the provincial authorities past week, which brought changes to terms markups and pricing portion differentials on with the instauration of a caller pricing portion successful Cartwright.

Markups for gasoline, diesel and stove lipid saw decreases, but immoderate regions saw an summation successful terms erstwhile accounting for marketplace changes.

Across Labrador, Friday's price changes for state are arsenic follows:

• A 2.8 cent per litre summation successful Labrador West and Churchill Falls.
• A 0.6 cent per litre summation from the Straits to Red Bay (Pricing Zone 10), Lodge Bay and Pinsent's Arm (Zone 11), the southbound seashore (Zone 11A), cardinal Labrador (Zone 12) and the northbound seashore (Zone 14).
• A 16.5 cent per litre alteration successful Cartwright.

Friday's terms adjustments mean state prices present scope betwixt $1.70 and $2.01 per litre depending connected your determination successful Labrador.

Additionally, the terms of diesel and stove lipid besides fluctuated. 

Diesel prices decreased by 0.6 cents per litre successful zones 10, 11, 11A, 12 and 14, portion decreasing by 14.5 cents per litre successful Cartwright and by 3 cents per litre successful Labrador West and Churchill Falls. Prices for the substance present scope betwixt $1.94 and $2.11 per litre crossed Labrador.

The terms of stove lipid accrued by 0.5 cents per litre in zones 10, 11, 11A, 12 and 14, portion decreasing by implicit 3.2 cents successful Labrador West and Churchill Falls and by 18.32 cents per litre successful Cartwright. The accommodation means maximum prices present scope betwixt $1.20 and $1.52 per litre crossed Labrador.

Newfoundland drivers spot two-cent increase

In Newfoundland, the terms of state roseate by 2.3 cents per litre Friday. Price adjustments utilized to hap connected Thursdays, but the PUB volition marque adjustments connected Fridays moving forward.

The accommodation puts maximum prices connected the Avalon Peninsula astatine conscionable nether $1.68 per litre. Elsewhere successful Newfoundland, prices scope betwixt $1.68 and $1.83 per litre.

The terms of diesel decreased by 3.5 cents per litre, meaning maximum prices present scope betwixt $1.92 and $2.05 per litre crossed the island.

Furnace lipid besides decreased by implicit 3 cents per litre. Customers volition wage maximum prices betwixt $1.25 and $1.45 per litre depending connected location.

The terms of propane saw a alteration crossed Newfoundland of 4.2 cents per litre. But successful Labrador, the terms fluctuated from betwixt an 11.2 cent per litre alteration to a 2.6 cent per litre summation depending connected the region.

The alteration maximum prices for propane present scope betwixt $1.13 and $1.27 per litre successful Newfoundland and betwixt 99 cents and $1.24 per litre successful Labrador.

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