The Liberal Government is required by March 31, 2022, to publicly release details of its promised plan to reduce the annual level of Canada’s GHG emissions 40% to 45% by 2030, below the 2005 level. Our national emissions were 730 Mt in 2019. A 45% reduction, down to about 401 Mt, would require…
Canada’s “Net-Zero Emissions by 2050” Promise
It is now more than a full year since the Liberal Government on November 19, 2020, announced its new “net-zero” goal for 2050. Greenhouse gas emissions in all seven sectors of the Canadian economy in 2019 totalled 730 million tonnes (Mt) of CO2eq. Canada’s commitment under the 2015 Paris Agreement…
Warming to 1.5°C and Canada’s Oil and Gas Production
The government of our country must be held to account by our Members of Parliament. On the most important issues, our Members of Parliament must speak with absolute candour and be guided by conscience. On the grave issue of climate change, now become the rapidly unfolding peril of climate breakdown…
Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body refuses to talk about Canada’s increasing oil production
During the past year, a series of major reports about oil production, dealing with both global production and Canada’s own oil industry, have highlighted our predicament: the incompatibility between ambitions by Canada and other major oil producing countries to continue increasing their own oil production, and…
Canada’s planned expansion of oil production is incompatible with limiting global warming to 1.5°C
On December 9, 2021, the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) released its Canada’s Energy Future 2021 (CER 2021) report, showing the expected trajectory of Canada’s future oil and gas production up to 2050. The CER has published two new scenarios…