Posted by mhudema on January 24, 2008
The Alberta government just announced its “climate change plan”. The plan will see emissions continue to rise until 2020 when we will see gradual reduction. By a friends calculation, their 2050 target is 18% above 1990 levels (25% above Kyoto levels).
Alberta plan - emissions to INCREASE by 2020.
World scientific community - 30% REDUCTION needed by 2020 based on 1990 levels.
Alberta plan - 18% INCREASE by 2050 based on 1990 levels.
World scientific community - 90% REDUCTION by 2050 based on 1990 levels.
This is literally insane.
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January 24, 2008
Alberta to cut projected emissions by 50 per cent under new climate change plan
Carbon capture and storage, energy conservation and efficiency, and greening energy production are keys to 200-megatonne reduction
Edmonton… Alberta will cut projected greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 as part of a long-term climate change plan that focuses on carbon capture and storage, consumer incentives and greener energy production.
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Posted by mhudema on January 24, 2008
SHAWN MCCARTHY AND NORVAL SCOTT
Globe and Mail Update
January 23, 2008 at 9:55 PM EST
The Alberta government will unveil a climate change policy Thursday that is expected to shift the focus from the oil industry and coal-fired power utilities to consumers.
As the premiers prepare for a climate change summit in Vancouver next week, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is releasing a broad plan that is expected to focus on efficiency, renewable energy and technological approaches to carbon management.
The plan, which follows regulations imposed last year on the province’s big industrial emitters, will offer incentives to consumers for energy efficiency and conservation, as well as the use of the alternative energies.
Mr. Stelmach, who is expected to call a provincial election in the next few weeks, will not, however, meet environmentalists’ demands to impose tougher caps on large final emitters – mainly the oil industry, utilities and petrochemical plants.
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Posted by mhudema on January 24, 2008
Prius Designer Says Industry Must Lose Oil Addiction (Update1)
By John Lippert and Alan Ohnsman
Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) — Bill Reinert, who helped design Toyota Motor Corp.’s Prius hybrid, hovers in a helicopter 1,000 feet over Fort McMurray, Alberta. On this clear November morning, he’s craning for a look at one of the world’s largest petroleum reserves where there’s not an oil well in sight.
Instead, in a 2-mile-wide pit below, trucks head to refineries with loads of sand weighing more than Boeing 747s. Yellow flames shoot skyward as 900-degree-Fahrenheit (482- degree-Celsius) heat liquefies any embedded petroleum. Floating scarecrows and propane-powered cannons do their best to chase migrating birds from lethal wastewater ponds.
Eventually, nuclear reactors may surround the crater 270 miles (435 kilometers) northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, delivering the power required to wring oil from sand.
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