There is a huge hole in the emissions target released by the Trudeau government the other day. Canada cannot continue to ship tar sands bitumen off shore and not take responsibility for added emissions of greenhouse gasses to convert it to ersatz crude oil and then the ultimate emissions of the refined carbon-based products. Once again, these geniuses promise paths to emissions reductions in ten or 20 years.
The Trudeau government needs to admit that the billions being spent on doubling the Trans Mountain pipeline are all in aid of making the lie of this fiction. It makes prime minister Justin Trudeau and his environment minister Steven Guilbeault look like foolish liars. And Alberta’s greed seems shared with the rest of the country.
And, one thing for sure, Steven Guilbeault has failed to live up to his advance billing. Is he really supposed to be some kind of environmentalist?
Canada has done nothing to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. You cannot achieve anything by continuing to push the targets further out. That is leaving the problems to someone else. And Canada’s carbon tax has been just another way to shift money around in the economy.
And there is no point in asking the oil industry. These people have no idea how the targeted reduction in emissions can be achieved. It really is not in their DNA. Carbon storage is the much-touted solution but the industry realizes how limited that solution will be. Carbon capture is creating a few time bombs beneath the surface of our earth.
Centuries from now, those caverns full of carbon could briefly fuel the light in a darkening universe from a long-dead planet.
And our saddest note of all is that these same liars of today have been tasked to help find solutions to the need for oil and natural gas in Europe to replace the Russian sourcing.
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