Canada can do more to help reduce global emissions with natural gas exports
Top 10 “super polluters” compared to Canada
Using a newly constructed global database, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder identified the world’s top 10 emitting power plants in 2018. All coal-fired, there are two in Europe, two in India, three in South Korea, and one each in Japan, Taiwan and northern China.
It takes just more than the top five of these plants to exceed the emissions of Canada’s entire oil and gas production sector, according to Canada’s national emissions inventory. The industry in Canada supports more than 500,000 jobs and provides the United States with more than 95 per cent of its natural gas imports and half of its imported oil.
Emissions from Canada’s natural gas production are less than half the emissions of the top two plants combined.
Meanwhile, emissions from the approximately 100 operating projects of different sizes and technologies in Canada’s oil sands are less than the pollution of just the top three coal plants together.
There were 2,445 coal plants operating around the world as of July 2021, as well as 195 under construction and 324 in “pre-construction,” according to Global Energy Monitor.
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Perspective: Canada’s Oil & Gas Emissions Dwarfed by Handful of ‘Super Polluter’ Global Coal Projects
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