Pipelines Albertas Sands Saving our Climate Gordon Laxer

Pipelines, Alberta’s Sands & Saving our Climate • Gordon Laxer • Web: www. gordonlaxer. com • Twitter: @afterthesands • Feb 14, 2017

Map of Persian Gulf Countries #2

Chretien’s 1997 climate promise vs Harper / Trudeau promise #3 • Chretien’s 1996 Kyoto target: • Reduce Canada’s greenhouse gases (GHGs) to 576 Mt (million tonnes) 6% below Canada’s 1990 level of 613 MT by 2012 • Result: Canada’s emissions 715 Mt, 17% above Canada’s Kyoto goal in 2012 • Harper / Trudeau official GHG Paris target 2015 • Reduce Canada’s 2005 level of 749 Mt GHGs by 30% by 2030 to 524 Mt • Enviro Canada’s mid range projection for 2030 • 815 Mt, 9% above 2005 level

Canada’s projected GHGs by 2030 (Environment Canada) http: //ec. gc. ca/ges-ghg/default. asp? lang=En&n=985 F 05 FB-1 #4

Alberta announces climate plan Nov 22 #5

Alberta’s emissions 2013 (267 Mt) source: Ab gov’thttp: //www. alberta. ca/climate-current-emissions. cfm #6 Source percentage • Agric, Forestry, Waste 9% • Buildings and Homes 8% • Electricity Generation 17% • Oil & Gas 46% • Other Industry, Manuf. Construction 9% • Transportation 11%

Oil & Nat Gas sector will take up 56% of Canada’s emissions by 2030 source: David Hughes #7

Emissions by province 1990 to 2013 #8 1990 to 2013 Alberta’s emissions up 53% Sask’s up 66% BC’s up 21% Manitoba’s up 14% Ont’s down 6% Quebec’s & Atlantic Canada down 8% • Canada’s total emissions up 18. 5% • • Source: https: //climatechangeconnection. org/emissions/g hg-emissions-canada/canada-ghg-by-province/

Emissions by economic sectors 2013 source: Environment and Climate Change Canada https: //www. ec. gc. ca/GES-GHG/default. asp? lang=En&n=02 D 095 CB-1 #9

Cumulative CO 2 emissions 1850 -2011 World Resources Institute #10

Annual Emissions top 10 Emitters 2011 World Resources Institute #11

Tradable Energy Quotas website (http: //www. teqs. net/) #12

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Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline source: Kinder Morgan's Trans. Mountain website #14

Enbridge’s Line 3 expansion to double oil exports source: National Energy Board website #15

Trans. Canada’s Keystone XL oil pipeline proposal source: Trans. Canada website #16

Trans. Canada’s Energy East pipeline proposal source: National Energy Board site #17

Enbridge line 9 b (Ont-Quebec portion) source: National Energy Board website #18

Ab Sands wkrs (“Iron & Earth”) want retrain 1000 elect wkrs on 100 diff solar projects #19

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Why are Ontario’s hydro costs so high? • Total Ont electrical power capacity: 30, 203 megawatts • Average power use 15, 959 megawatts • Peak use: 22, 774 megawatts (75% of capacity) • Ontaro built 17 new gas-fired power plants w. 10, 000 megawatts capacity • They’re not needed. Costs to pay for them is high • Instead, Ont should have imported cheap hydro from Quebec to meet peak spikes in demand