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Who were the 5,000 British Columbians Protesting Kinder Morgan's Pipeline?

Who were the 5,000 British Columbians Protesting Kinder Morgan’s Pipeline?

By Roy L Hales

According to former Geological Survey of Canada scientist David Hughes, Alberta’s much touted emissions cap permits a 53% ramp up of production in that province’s tar sands. Green party leader Elizabeth May concludes that Prime Minister Trudeau’s climate targets are essentially the same as his predecessorand “even that weak target is not within reach.” Those are some of the…

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Tight Oil, Canada's Pipeline Capacity & The Trans Mountain Pipeline's Feasibility

Tight Oil, Canada’s Pipeline Capacity & The Trans Mountain Pipeline’s Feasibility

The ECOreport talks to David Hughes about Tight Oil, Canada’s Pipeline Capacity & The Trans Mountain Pipeline’s Feasibility

By Roy L Hales

Last March I interviewed internationally recognized energy expert David Hughes at his home on Cortes Island. Publication of this story was delayed, in part, because of a six minute segment in which he discussed some of the issues raised in his newly published…

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Studies Find Canada's Methane Emissions Are Drastically Underreported

Studies Find Canada’s Methane Emissions Are Drastically Underreported

The ECOreport looks at two alarming new reports, Studies Find Canada’s Methane Emissions Are Drastically Underreported

By Roy L Hales

Some consider natural gas preferable to other fossil fuels “because it emits 50-60% less carbon dioxide (CO2) during combustion.” But over the course of its’100-year lifespan natural gas’ primary component has “a radiative forcing greater than 30 times that of…

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British Columbia's Climate Leadership

British Columbia’s Climate Leadership

The ECOreport looks at criticisms that British Columbia’s Climate Leadership ceased five years ago

By Roy L Hales

In 2008, British Columbia became the first jurisdiction in North America to introduce a broad-based, revenue-neutral carbon tax. This drew praise from environmentalists like David Suzuki, as well as World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. That was 8 years ago, the Pembina Institute…

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Health Canada Finds Alberta's SO2 Emissions Troubling

Health Canada Finds Alberta’s SO2 Emissions Troubling

The ECOreporet reposts a report that Health Canada Finds Alberta’s SO2 Emissions Troubling

Originally Published on the Pembina Institute

By Andrew Read

Albertans pay a high price in terms of air quality and health complications due to the burning of coal to produce electricity, a recently released Health Canada study has found. The seemingly regular release of new data confirming the health risks…

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Alberta's Climate Plan Is Not Aggressive Enough

Alberta’s Climate Plan Is Not Aggressive Enough

Given Alberta’s recent history, the province’s new climate plan is “astonishingly good”; In terms of what the planet needs, Alberta’s Climate Plan Is Not Aggressive Enough.

Originally Published on Clean Technica

by Mike Barnard

On November 22, Alberta’s new government released its new climate plan. From the lens of Alberta, home of the oil sands with a 40+ year history of governments which…

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Images Related To Air Quality in Alberta

Originally Published on the Pembina Institute

By Benjamin Thibault, Andrew Read & Joe Vipond

In February, Environment Canada presented a series of images related to air quality in Alberta at the Oil Sands Monitoring Symposium. The Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Agency, which hosted the symposium, recently posted the full suite of images, including videos, online.

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Emissions from Tar Sands Only 20% Higher

A comparative study gas and diesel emissions from product originating in Alberta and the United States found that emissions from Tar Sands Only 20% Higher

Originally Published on UC Davis

By Kat Kerlin

Gasoline and diesel fuel extracted and refined from Canadian oil sands will release about 20 percent more carbon into the atmosphere over the oil’s lifetime than fuel from conventional crude…

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