Sentences with phrase «alberta than an emissions»

I think you can make a compelling case that an emissions reduction sourced through CCS is worth more to Alberta than an emissions reduction from an existing, proven technology.

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Chris Severson - Baker, Alberta director of the Pembina Institute, said reducing methane emissions is critical because the gas is 25 times more potent as a climate warming agent than carbon dioxide.

Mascarenhas estimates that applying her company's technology to the methane that's currently vented or flared could reduce Alberta's GHG emissions by 60 megatonnes — 35 % of Canada's 2020 reduction goal — at a cost of less than $ 1.70 per tonne.

And Notley has done more to reduce emissions than any Alberta government has ever done.

Shell's emissions last year were 5Mt, so with their credits from Quest and their use of cogeneration, more than half of this could be offset, far exceeding the reductions which will be required under Alberta law.

The Fuel Quality Directive has attracted a great deal of attention here in Canada because it would assign a higher emissions rating to Alberta oilsands than to other sources of crude oil, and I have -LSB-...]

Next week, the EU is expected to vote on the Fuel Quality Directive which would assign a higher emissions rating to Alberta oilsands than to other sources of crude oil, including some which may or may not actually have higher emissions than oilsands oil.

Overly optimistic projections of future oil supply, which are much higher than the latest NEB projections and don't consider the Alberta government's cap on oil sands emissions imposed by its Climate Leadership Plan.

However, Alberta environment office show that «greenhouse gas» emissions from oil sands plummeted 38 % between 1990 and 2009, and are now 5 % of Canada's total GHG emissions — and equal to or lower than CO2 / GHG emissions from petroleum operations in Nigeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

Buying green energy is more environmentally effective if you live in a place like Alberta, where the electricity is fossil - intensive, and less effective in British Columbia, where each kilowatt - hour produces more than 100 times fewer emissions than a kilowatt hour in Alberta.

But the findings of the Alberta study clearly suggest that actual methane emissions from the upstream oil and gas sector (excluding mined oil sands) are likely to be at least 25 to 50 per cent greater than estimated.

... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which includes more than 3,000 scientists from around the world, agrees that climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global warming.

But building any of these pipelines ignores the fact that upstream oil and gas emissions under Alberta's plan, given NEB projections, will account for more than three quarters (76 %) of Canada's emissions by 2040 and 100 % by 2050 — if emissions reduction targets are to be met.

If the oil sands were located in BC, operators would be much more strongly incentivized to reduce their emissions than they are in Alberta.

This was followed by a session delving into the market realities of high wind integration in Alberta, including the findings of CanWEA's ground - breaking Pan-Canadian Wind Integration Study, which demonstrated how Canada can get more than one - third of its electricity from wind energy without compromising grid reliability, and at the same time dramatically cut emissions, save billions in fossil fuel costs and generate new export opportunities.

If Alberta were a country, its per capita greenhouse gas emissions would be higher than any other country in the world.

Beetle kill wood has accounted for the largest amount of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the province, more than all of the province's human activity combined, more than motor vehicle emissions, and nearly double the output of Alberta's oil sands.

Environment Minister Jim Prentice has been consulting with provinces on the pending federal regulations, and has encountered resistance from outside Alberta that its industry would either be bound by different rules than others, or would be allowed to increase emissions to the detriment of other sectors.

With Alberta representing more than a third of Canadian emissions in 2006, the failure by that province to cut back will require the rest of the provinces to reduce their emissions by more than 35 per cent from 2006 levels over the next 10 years.

«After more than six years in operation, the regulation has not resulted in a reduction of Alberta's total emissions,» Pembina analyst Andrew Read concluded in a July 2014 report.