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Open data · A weekendNewfoundland and Labrador· Source · Oct 2026

People in Newfoundland and Labrador can't chart regulated fuel prices over time without opening one PDF per day.

Drivers, households heating with oil, and researchers tracking fuel costs in Newfoundland and Labrador

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How this problem came to be

  1. Found3 sourcespub.nl.ca, opendata.gov.nl.ca
  2. Quoted3 claimseach checked against its page
  3. BriefWrittenand what solved looks like
  4. MarketNot sizedon the next engine run
  5. Kit5 steps21 tools · 6 routes
  6. People0 want0 live it · 0 would test

The problem, broken down

Who it hurts
Drivers, people who heat with furnace oil, journalists and researchers following fuel costs by zone.
The moment
When prices change daily and someone wants to see the trend for their zone.
What people do today
Each price change is posted as separate PDFs; the open data dataset stops in 2019.
Why it's unsolved
Prices are published as orders in PDF, and the open data copy has not been updated.
What solved looks like
A script that downloads the Board's price PDFs and builds one CSV (date, zone, product, maximum price), republished each day, with a simple chart by zone. Checked against 20 randomly chosen PDFs.

Evidence

Every claim is tied to the source it comes from
Public Utilities Board: current petroleum pricing (observed 2026-10-09) ↗
  1. 1On 2026-10-09 the Board's current pricing page said that due to market volatility it is moving to daily price adjustments until further notice.
Public Utilities Board: historical petroleum pricing (observed 2026-10-09) ↗
  1. 2On 2026-10-09 the historical pricing page listed 156 motor fuel price orders from January to October 2026, each as a separate PDF; the page had 623 PDF links and no CSV or spreadsheet links.
Open Data NL: Regulated Fuel Prices dataset (observed 2026-10-09) ↗
  1. 3On 2026-10-09 the open data ‘Regulated Fuel Prices’ dataset offered Excel files with a revision date of 2019-03-26.

Written from the cited sources. Anything they don't say is left as a question, not a guess.

Sources

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  1. [1]Open Data NL: Regulated Fuel Prices dataset (observed 2026-10-09)
  2. [2]Public Utilities Board: current petroleum pricing (observed 2026-10-09)
  3. [3]Public Utilities Board: historical petroleum pricing (observed 2026-10-09)
What the source says, in short

On 2026-10-09 the Board's current pricing page said that due to market volatility it is moving to daily price adjustments until further notice. On 2026-10-09 the historical pricing page listed 156 motor fuel price orders from January to October 2026, each as a separate PDF; the page had 623 PDF links and no CSV or spreadsheet links. On 2026-10-09 the open data ‘Regulated Fuel Prices’ dataset offered Excel files with a revision date of 2019-03-26.

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