{"id":34054,"date":"2018-05-08T06:53:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34054"},"modified":"2018-05-08T06:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:53:13","slug":"politics-versus-the-future-canadas-orwellian-energy-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34054","title":{"rendered":"Politics versus the future: Canada\u2019s Orwellian energy\u00a0standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/energyoutlook.ca\/2018\/05\/01\/op-ed\/\">Politics versus the future: Canada\u2019s Orwellian energy\u00a0standoff<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>There is no denying the utility of fossil fuels, which meet 85% of the world\u2019s energy needs. And consumption is rising along with emissions. Even in Canada, the second largest hydropower producer in the world, 76% of end use energy is provided by fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>We are told by the federal government that increasing oil and gas production and meeting emissions reduction targets are mutually compatible goals. Alberta has crafted a \u2018climate leadership plan\u2019 that allows oil sands emissions to grow by 40% and places no restrictions on oil and gas production outside of the oil sands. A phase out of remaining coal plants, most of which were already due to be decommissioned under the former Harper government\u2019s legislation, and a modest carbon tax, were also included.<\/p>\n<p>Even with Alberta\u2019s oil sands cap in place, National Energy Board (NEB) projections for oil and gas production growth show that upstream emissions will increase greatly, to the point that a 49% reduction in emissions from the rest of Canada\u2019s economy would be required to meet our Paris targets.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the difficulty in making such radical reductions outside of the petroleum sector in a short timeframe, the federal and Alberta governments assert that if the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) is not built, even Alberta\u2019s extremely modest \u2018climate leadership plan\u2019 may be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau have invested a lot of political capital in TMX but are ignoring the bigger picture. Even if oil and gas production is allowed to grow per the NEB\u2019s projections, there are two other export pipelines likely to be built that are not mentioned in the heated TMX debate.<\/p>\n<p>Line 3 and Keystone XL, without TMX, would provide sufficient pipeline export capacity for foreseeable production growth under the oil sands emissions cap, and access world prices on the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics versus the future: Canada\u2019s Orwellian energy\u00a0standoff There is no denying the utility of fossil fuels, which meet 85% of the world\u2019s energy needs. And consumption is rising along with emissions. Even in Canada, the second largest hydropower producer in the world, 76% of end use energy is provided by fossil fuels. 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