The news today are all over the story about CO2 emissions by province. In the fine print, they say the study only included numbers reported by industrial sources for 2004 and that the transportation sector wasn't included.
As reported, the bad boys are: AB (39%), ON (28%) and QC (8%).
On an industrial-tonnes per capita basis (statscan 2005), this changes slightly. The bad boys are: AB (33k), SK (23k), and NB (17k).
Further, based on the following assumptions/unconfirmed facts:
1. the industrial sector accounts for 65% of all CO2 emissions in canada;
2. the transportation sector accounts for the remaining 35%;
3. transportation CO2 emissions are the same for all provinces on a per capita basis;
4. i entered all numbers and formulae correctly in my spreadsheet;
we can conclude that the bad boys, based on total tonnes per capita, are: AB (3.8million tonnes), SK (2.7), NB (2.2).
With Alberta consistently the worst offender and Saskatchewan almost as guilty, not to mention so much electoral ground to gain in rather Liberal New-Brunswick, it's no wonder the Conservatives are trying to downplay the importance of CO2 and global warming on the lives of "ordinary Canadians"...
4 comments:
I wouldn't call Québec a bad boy with 8%... Alberta on the other hand should pay CO2 credit to other provinces (internal Kyoto) or invest majorly in projects that will reduce the pollution.
but a CO2 "cap and trade" system isn't a part of the cons' plan (or should I say "approach"), is it?
I wouldn't expect to see "Canada's (self-proclaimed) New Government" accusing vote-poor QC of being a bad boy anytime soon... at least not until after the next elections, then all bets are off!
I'm not really surprised about Alberta, or Ontario/Quebec, but what is going on in Saskatchewan & NB that's polluting so much? But ya, you are right. Alberta is always protected because it's such a cash cow.
of course, especially with all the promotion that harper is putting into his pet "emerging energy super power"...
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