Emissions trending down across Canada — except for the oil and gas sector, where they’re way up.
Catherine McKenna, the former Canadian environment minister and current chair of the UN expert group on net-zero commitments, denounced the Pathways Alliance ad campaign as greenwashing because it claims “they are on their way to net-zero despite all evidence to the contrary.”According to the 2021put out by the Canadian Climate Institute last week, oil and gas emissions are up 67 per cent since 2005, and now produce more than 105 million tonnes of carbon emissions per year.
When you factor in fugitive methane leaks, it adds another 52 million tonnes of carbon to the total. With these leaks, the oil and gas industry alone was responsible for more than half of the rise in national emissions between 2020 and 2021. New research, however, calls into question the accuracy of the reported methane numbers, saying real fugitive emissions
than the number reported to government. If substantiated, this would push oil and gas emissions above 300 million tonnes, or more than a third of all emissions in the country.“They’re responsible for most of the growth in emissions we’ve seen in Canada. So they have the responsibility and clearly the means” to lower their emissions,” he said. “Clearly they need to do more.”RELATED STORIES
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