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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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The Dark Side of BC’s Oil & Gas Industry

The Dark Side of BC’s Oil & Gas Industry

The ECOreport reposts an OP-ED about the province’s #1 emitter, The Dark Side of BC’s Oil & Gas Industry

From the David Suzuki Foundation

By David Suzuki

We’ve long known extracting oil and gas comes with negative consequences, and rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, increases the problemsand adds new ones — excessive water use and contamination, earthquakes, destruction of…

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The Expertise Needed To Build Canada’s Renewable Sector

The Expertise Needed To Build Canada’s Renewable Sector

Alison Thompson, the NDP Candidate for FootHills Alberta 

By Roy L Hales

There is refreshing news coming out of Alberta, for those of us who feel a little uncomfortable with the vagueness of the New Democratic Party’s energy policy. Their new candidate Alison Thompson, has been working in the energy sector for twenty years. She became the Chair of the Canadian Geothermal Association (CanGEA) in…

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