Canada is the world’s 4th largest oil producer. When our national energy agency, the Canada Energy Regulator (CER), published its most recent report on December 9, 2021, projecting the future path of Canada’s oil and gas production to 2050, it showed that our oil production will continue to expand to 2040, with no significant…
The Federal Government has the constitutional powers needed to curb Canada’s increasing oil production
On March 29, 2022, the Federal Government released its most recent climate policy statement, called the 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP). The document lays out details of promised future policies that the government says will reduce Canada’s total domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Yet it also includes a plan…
Call for an independent public inquiry to advise the Federal Government and inform Canadians on a safe plan for Canada’s future oil production
Canada’s new Emissions Reduction Plan announced on March 29, 2022, includes a detailed plan by our government to continue increasing Canada’s oil production to 2030 and maintain high production levels for another 20 years after that. The plan envisions no significant reduction…
Global emissions implications of continuing to increase Canada’s oil production
Over a year ago, in April 2021, we began efforts to directly question Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson (now Minister of Natural Resources) about the fundamental contradiction between the path Canada is presently following, continuing to rapidly expand our oil production while ignoring repeated warnings…
Net-Zero Advisory Body is silent on Canada’s expanding oil production
Over 85% of the emissions from every barrel of oil we produce in Canada occurs after we export our oil, when it is burned as fuel in cars and trucks (“downstream emissions”) and released as tailpipe emissions. The downstream emissions from our exported oil are currently more than 700 Mt annually. Although the government…
Member of Parliament misleads Canadians on Bay du Nord
On May 31, 2022, we sent a letter to a Member of Parliament named Julie Dabrusin. Most Canadians will never have heard of her. We all have a duty and responsibility to challenge anyone who poses as a politician concerned about climate policy. Dabrusin is one of those.
Canada’s New Climate Plan and increasing oil production
Canada’s most recent climate policy statement was released on March 29, 2022. It promises deep cuts in our domestic emissions by 2030. The scheme assures Canadians that these policies will contribute to a global effort to keep the ongoing increase in the earth’s average surface temperature…
Failure of Carbon Capture and Storage technology
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development during the past two weeks has been holding hearings that have focused on the government’s plan to use taxpayers’ money to subsidize a $75 billion scheme to support large-scale deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage…
Canada’s $75 billion dollar plan to subsidize more oil production
The promise by government is that CCUS technology will enable our emissions-intensive oil industry to continue to expand and to maintain high production levels for another 30 years, while we use CCUS to “remove” and sequester the CO2 emissions that are presently released into the atmosphere…
Why 2030 is an unforgiving deadline
The UN Emissions Gap Report 2021 released on October 25, 2021, confronts us with the reality that, with only nine years remaining, the world’s largest emitting countries are not remotely on track to achieve the very deep emissions reductions that are required by 2030 to avoid the gravest impacts…