CTV:
Canada’s first emissions reduction roadmap relies heavily on the oil and gas sector to help Ottawa reach its 2030 climate goal, but there is a still a big gap between what industry and government say are achievable cuts.
Oil and gas is Canada’s highest-polluting sector, accounting for 26% of total emissions. If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is to meet its climate target of reducing overall emissions 40-45% below 2005 levels by 2030, the oil and gas industry will need to make drastic cuts.
Carbon dioxide is not a “pollutant.” This might seem like pedantry, but it’s important.
So far Canada has missed every emissions reduction goal it has ever set and oil and gas pollution has risen 19% between 2005 and 2019. Canada’s new Emissions Reduction Plan, announced on Tuesday, aims to cut oil and gas emissions by 42% from current levels by 2030.
Global Warming Catastrophism might be the dumbest non-issue of them all. And you know this is true, because if the world was actually ending our Parasite Class would be taking actual real actions against Global Wahming. Instead, they just do random grifts that put money into the pockets of the well connected, while flying all around the world to lecture the rest of us on how important it is that we accept a diminished standard of living.
“Ambition is one thing, action is what’s required,” Suncor Energy Chief Executive Mark Little told a sustainability conference in Vancouver on Tuesday, adding industry needed to work with government to align climate targets.
The Oil Sands Pathway Alliance, a group of six Canadian oil and gas companies including Suncor, is targeting only a 32% cut by 2030. Their alliance, which accounts for 90% of northern Alberta’s oil sands production, is aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050.
BTW, don’t ever get finkled into thinking that oil execs are “based,” or whatever. These people are 100% onboard with whatever bullshit grifts are dreamed up by people like Trudeau’s handlers.
CCS involves capturing and permanently sequestering emissions underground, a costly process that the oil and gas sector wants public money to help fund. After months of negotiations Ottawa is expected to announce CCS tax credit in the 2022 budget next week.
“Industry’s job is to keep costs down and transfer the risk from their shareholders to someone else, so there’s a discussion here around subsidizing emissions reductions,” Sawyer said.
This is what I mean. They don’t give a shit, provided you pay for it. Carbon Capture Facilities are designed to expend massive amount of energy storing carbon back in the ground. A completely wasteful activity that exists purely to pretend to solve a non-problem.
Many environmental campaigners criticized the oil and gas industry for not doing its fair share. The sector is expected to cut emissions 31% from 2005 levels by 2030, far less than the electricity sector’s 88% reduction, but still more than transportation’s 11% cut.
“We need an all-hands-on-deck-approach to climate action, but according to this plan, some sectors – most notably oil and gas – will not contribute their fair share, letting the burden fall on workers, consumers, and other industries,” said Caroline Brouillette, national policy manager for Climate Action Network.
It’s all so tiresome, these constant grifts. Pushed by people who literally fly around the world to Global Warming conferences where they can lecture us on what naughty little peasants we are for using too much carbon. And here they are, finding ways to both increase the cost of fuel, while also taxing you harder to pay for it.
I’m too tired and annoyed for any more cogent analysis. Fuck these people.
