ENV250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Municipal Solid Waste, Kathleen Wynne, Cooking Oil
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Why energy policy: we use energy all the time and every day. It took a lot of energy to manufacture things like phones, cars, heat and cool homes, to get mangoes to. Mississauga in january: energy policy is the most contentious area of environmental policy in canada. If you look at broader energy use (fuel, heating and cooling, etc. ) we are still consuming a lot of energy per person: canada ranks 6th most in the world. Coal: coal is a type of fossil fuel fossilized organic matter over time, major source of electricity globally, makes electricity in power plants, there is also natural gas and oil. In 2015, rachel notley (premier of alberta) announced the phasing out of coal by 2030: replacing this energy with renewable energy (wind and solar) Increasing despite efficiency improvements per barrel: phasing out of coal will be negated from growth in the oil sands.
