Sentences with word «megatonnes»

Instead of bailing out an American company, let's put federal support behind building upgraders and refineries in Alberta — in exchange for which Alberta agrees to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the oilsands to 35 megatonnes by 2050.

Cenovus and Suncor have been vocal supporters of the NDP government's climate change policies which include an annual 100 - megatonne cap on total emissions from the oilsands.

It mentions setting up laser guns both on Earth and on the Moon, establishing an «armada» of hundreds of Earth - orbiting rockets, each carrying a 100 - megatonne warhead, and even the possibility of using antimatter to blow incoming meteorites or comets off course.

Looking at the residential sector, without the last decade of improvements in codes, standards and practices, today's GHG emissions would have been at least 9 megatonnes higher, representing a 13.2 % increase over 1990 levels.

In all of 2009, total greenhouse gas emissions in British Columbia were down slightly to 66.9 megatonnes CO2e, according to the provincial government.

It is just one example of a climate plague, that acts as a feedback on the carbon cycle, releasing megatonnes of CO2, and on biodiversity loss.

We are a 750 - megatonne economy, roughly.

The committee's report recommended that the province publish an annual forecast of greenhouse gas emissions from the Athabasca bitumen sands to monitor compliance with the government's 100 - megatonne annual emissions cap.

The federal floor price on carbon could eliminate up to 90 megatonnes of carbon dioxide by 2022, depending on the specific carbon pricing schemes different provinces and territories put in place, according to a new analysis released yesterday by Environment and Climate Change Canada.

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.

The oilsands will be limited to a total of 100 megatonnes of emissions — about 30 megatonnes more than the industry now emits.

The industry is now at about 70 megatonnes.

What the report to the UN actually says is that Canada will miss its 2030 target by 66 megatonnes of carbon, which is about 22 per cent of needed reductions.

Current emissions are less than the cap — approximately 70 megatonnes / year.

The Harper target equates to 2030 emissions of 517 million tons (or megatonnes).

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has committed to capping oilsands emissions at 100 megatonnes / year.

They report that in 2011, Alberta coal power plants produced over 40 megatonnes of CO2: «the same amount produced by roughly half of all cars on the road in Canada today.»

Alberta's NDP government has brought in legislation capping oilsands industries from collectively emitting more than 100 megatonnes of greenhouse gases a year to reduce the effects of climate change and remake the province's energy infrastructure into one that relies more on renewables such as wind, solar and hydro power.

Carbon pollution from these sources is forecast to hit 66 megatonnes (Mt) in 2050, compared to the province's legislated target of 12.6 Mt.

Today they announced they will cap its expansion and limit the tarsands monster to 100 megatonnes a year.»

«The joint release shows that carbon pollution will actually rise until 2030 under Christy Clark's plan, and that by 2050 carbon pollution will still be 41 megatonnes (Mt) higher than British Columbia's legislated 2050 target of 12.6 Mt.. This is an embarrassing failure by Christy Clark's government.

In other words the cheapest and most sensible approach to reducing greenhouse gases from current 732 megatonnes to a 2020 target of 620 megatonnes involves shrinking the oil and gas industry by limiting bitumen extraction, and not building more pipelines.

Compare this with total annual emissions here in British Columbia of 63 megatonnes.

Marc's conservative estimate is that new oil sands production associated with the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (just the expansion beyond the existing pipeline) would represent an additional 93 megatonnes of global GHG emissions per year.

Meaning, if it is built, it is because the interests behind it likely do not believe the promise of the Notley government in Alberta that oil sands production emissions will stop at 100 megatonnes of GHGs.

If we are serious about avoiding dangerous climate change, 250,000 megatonnes is the maximum amount of carbon we can put into the atmosphere.

They calculated that storm damage released an average of 25 megatonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere each year.

Together, these will emit about 54 megatonnes of CO2 per year, which Pahle says is roughly double what would have been emitted if gas - fired stations had been built instead.

For each case study, the authors calculated the reductions of disability - adjusted life - years (DALYs), a measure of potential years of life lost to disease or premature death, and the megatonnes of carbon dioxide saved.

By comparison, Wilkinson found that improving household energy efficiency in the United Kingdom would save more energy — 0.6 megatonnes of carbon dioxide per million people over a year — but would only save 850 DALYs, due in part to reduced cardiovascular and respiratory disease.

In one year the programme would save 12,500 DALYs and 0.1 - 0.2 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent for every million people.

That's a shame, says Lee, because the EU trading system was on track to save around 1000 megatonnes of CO2 by 2020.

... the cumulative impact of the beetle outbreak in the affected region during 2000 — 2020 will be 270 megatonnes (Mt) carbon (or 36 g carbon m - 2 yr - 1 on average over 374,000 km2 of forest).

People are rightly concerned about the difficulties of controlling small quantities of fission properties but the problem of controlling the megatonnes of CO2 will make that look trivial by comparison.

It estimates that the processes needed to feed the world — from farming to storing, transporting and refrigerating food — accounted for 19 - 29 percent of global emissions in 2008, or the equivalent of 10,000 - 17,000 megatonnes of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere annually.

Once the oil is burned, that's an extra 6.5 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere each year — the same as putting 1.6 million more cars on the road.

Current CO2 emissions from oil sands production sit at around 70 megatonnes, twice as much compared to 10 years ago.

Alberta's new climate plan calls for a ceiling of 100 megatonnes.

If the savings identified by ICF were exploited to the fullest between 2010 and 2012, this would reduce the nation's total emissions by 16 megatonnes — and eliminate the currently projected Kyoto deficit of 14.7 megatonnes.