Climate Change
With the daily publication of EnviroAb, I thought I would add a weekly commentary on some of the topics I found of most interest/value. The relative roles and responsibilities of the federal and provincial committees reviewing oilsands monitoring was frequently discussed this week with questions of overlap, duplication etc. The intent to establish aprovincial committee [...]
Summer can be a fleeting thing in western and northern Canada. Last week was a prime example … +30 C to start the week but closer to +3 C to start the first “summer” long weekend. We can only hope for a turn around! The annual meeting of the International Arctic Buoy Meeting will be [...]
(Photo: Elbow River, Calgary, Alberta) I am certainly no expert but I am interested in trying to understand the emissions of carbon from various energy sources. A report from CERA calculates the ‘well to wheels’ emissions with Canada’s oil sands as the energy source. (Well to wheels is defined as: The oil extraction, processing, distribution, through [...]
Alberta Prime Time had a debate on the efficacy of Alberta’s regulations on greenhouse gases. Andy Ridge of the Alberta Climate Change Secretariat debated with Matthew Bramley of the Pembina Institute. At issue was what exactly was the substance of the Government’s news release of May 5th — where it was reported that emissions were [...]
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