Sentences with phrase «oil sands emissions»

New pipeline to tidewater or no, Jason Kenney has vowed to repeal the province's carbon tax and oil sands emissions cap.

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.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

Again, you could choose to give Young the benefit of the doubt that he was only talking about cars, not trucks, and then you are likely pretty close to the right number for oil sands emissions.

Renowned climate scientists in Canada and the United States are urging the Canadian government, which says it is close to announcing its new oil and gas regulations, to ensure that total greenhouse gas emissions, including oil sands emissions, go down.

Alberta has crafted a «climate leadership plan'that allows oil sands emissions to grow by 40 % and places no restrictions on oil and gas production outside of the oil sands.

This approach, combined with the intention of capping total annual oil sands emissions in the province at 100 megatonnes, could set the industry on a more sustainable path.

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He noted the federal - provincial climate agreement will limit any impact on greenhouse gases because Alberta has set a cap on oil sands emissions.

In fact, absent new measures Environment Canada's 2014 emissions trends report projected that oil sands emissions would drive increased emissions from the oil and gas sector of 45 Mt CO2e (to a total of 204 MtCO2e) between 2005 and 2020, offsetting the emission reductions made in other sectors.

I think it's likely that someone based that number on the forecasts for future oil sands production where, by 2020, oil sands emissions are expected to be a little larger (101 Mt vs. 90Mt) than those from personal transportation.

To tackle this, Alberta's government has released its Climate Leadership plan to put a price on GHG emissions, end pollution from coal - generated electricity by 2030, develop more renewable energy, cap oil sands emissions to 100 megatons per year and reduce methane emissions by 45 % by 2025.

At the same time, Alberta now has an ambitious climate plan that includes a carbon tax and hard cap on oil sands emissions.

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.

Both Hansen and McKibben suggest that oil sands emissions could increase CO2 concentration in the atmosphere by up to 200ppm, but this is both an extreme overestimate based on flawed assumptions and irrelevant to the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

It's been nearly a year since Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced an ambitious set of policies to cap oil sands emissions, phase out coal - fired power generation and implement an economy - wide carbon tax in Canada's «dirty» province.