ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cogeneration, Scotford Upgrader, Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
1 May 2015
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Oilsands and climate change: how canada"s oilsands are standing in the way of effective climate action. Many issues regarding the simplistic and often overly optimistic information. Oilsands are a major and growing source of ghg emissions: alberta"s climate targets are weak: targets allow for higher emissions than would be consistent with climate science. Oilsands are a major and growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. Over two decades, oilsands ghg emissions have more than doubled. This trend is projected to continue in a business-as-usual scenario. Ghg emissions are growing faster in the oilsands than any other sub-sector in canada (electricity, oil and gas, waste and others, commercial buildings, etc ) Extracting and upgrading synthetic crude from oilsands is a very emissions-intensive means of producing transportation fuel: producing transportation fuels from the oilsands is a very energy-intensive process, this is the most emissions-intensive commercial source. Carbon capture and storage it not likely to result in significant emissions reductions in the.
