Cascade Natural Gas Earnings Conference Call

    Business Editors

    SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2005--Cascade Natural Gas Corporation (NYSE:CGC) will hold a conference call to discuss fiscal first quarter financial results on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005 at 7:30 a.m. Pacific time, 10:30 a.m. Eastern time.
    First quarter earnings will be released after the market closes on the evening of Monday, January 24, 2005.
    To access the conference call, please call 1-888-552-7850 five minutes before the conference call begins.
    A replay of the call will be available after 9:00 a.m. Pacific time, Tuesday, January 25th. To access the replay, call 1-800-642-1687, or 1-706-645-9291 for callers outside the United States, and enter reservation number 3197167. The replay will be available through Wednesday, January 30, 2005.
    This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at CGC's web site at http://www.cngc.com/.
    The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.fulldisclosure.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

    Cascade Natural Gas Corporation, a natural gas distribution company, serves approximately 221,000 residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation customers in 93 communities in Washington and Oregon.

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CONTACT: Cascade Natural Gas Corporation J. D. Wessling, 206-624-3900 jwesslin@cngc.com

KEYWORD: WASHINGTON OREGON INDUSTRY KEYWORD: OIL/GAS ENERGY UTILITIES EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALLS SOURCE: Cascade Natural Gas Corporation

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