POL250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Methane Emissions, Rachel Notley, Biofuel
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* we use energy every day to plug in our iphone, apple uses it to manufacture the iphone, to create the aluminum and coil tan. A lot of energy in cars needed to make steel, a lot of energy to fill them with gasoline. Whether that energy is in the form of electricity, fuel or energy for heating and cooling. * energy policy is the most contentious area in environmental politics in canada, it takes a lot of money and network to make a change in infrastructure on the ground. Vancouver had some contestation protest against the pipe line and oil sands that were supposed to finish. * energy consumptions per person in 2014, select countries (kgs of oil equivalent), world bank data statistics. * canada ranks 6th most in the world after bahrain, kuwait, qatar, iceland (relies on geothermal (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is(cid:374)"t (cid:448)ery effi(cid:272)ie(cid:374)t for(cid:373) of e(cid:374)ergy(cid:895), trinidad and tobago.
