Canada a world leader? Sometimes that headline is good news. This time it is not.
Canada is a major emitter of methane — both in total emissions and emissions per capita.
Our single largest source is “fugitive emissions” from the oil and gas industry… That’s a fancy term for leaks.
Recent studies using satellites reveal most nations, including Canada, have been significantly underreporting methane leaks from their oil and gas industries…
Globally, it found the oil and gas industry was leaking 30 per cent more methane than governments were reporting…In both Canada and the United States, methane leaks were roughly 50 per cent higher than reported…
Canadians are leaking far more methane per person than even the frack-crazed Americans…
National Observer: Canada’s methane leaks — underreported and overwhelming
Unless every voter demands governments and industries stop dishonest greenwashing and take climate change more seriously, nothing will change. If nothing changes, humanity is at risk.
Greenwashing presents a significant obstacle to tackling climate change. By misleading the public to believe that a company or other entity is doing more to protect the environment than it is, greenwashing promotes false solutions to the climate crisis that distract from and delay concrete and credible action.
Greenwashing – the deceptive tactics behind environmental claims
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Twenty-five percent of the “natural” gas used by Canada (2.3 million cubic feet) per day is used by fossil fuel companies in Alberta to produce the dirty oil they’ll be shipping to pollute the world through the $30 billion pipeline Trudeau bought them with our money.
Madness.
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Link re above
https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/market-snapshots/2017/market-snapshot-natural-gas-plays-important-role-in-albertas-oil-sands.html
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The daily usage cited in my comment above should read 2.3 billion cubic feet.
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Being a “world leader” means nothing today, rather it is a term used by weak politicians.
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Most people still think natural gas is clean energy..well, cleaner than heating with oil.
In fact, my understanding is that NG is much higher in methane and sulphur.
The marketing ploy in selling NG has been going on for around sixty years. Many of us grew up with that idea engrained.
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Yes so true and when funding was made available federally
this is how it was used. Dated article link is older but the
story line never seems to change when it comes to O&G
companies.
$100 million in federal funding for cleanup of Alberta oil and gas wells went to sites licensed to anadian Natural Resources Limited — which has reported an average annual profit of $1.9 billion over the last decade
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