Expanding Tar Sands Will Kill Paris Targets and Climate Stab

Expanding Tar Sands Will Kill Paris Targets and Climate Stab

Postby Oscar » Tue Jan 24, 2017 8:11 am

Expanding Tar Sands Will Kill Paris Targets and Climate Stability, Report Finds

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Pipeline approvals ‘make the goals impossible to reach,’ finds Oil Change International.

By Andrew Nikiforuk , 19 Jan 2017 | TheTyee.ca

Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here.

‘There is no scenario in which tar sands production increases and the world achieves the Paris goals,’ says a new report by Oil Change International. [ http://priceofoil.org/ ]

Canada can’t increase tar sands production or build more pipelines if the world is to achieve the targets on global carbon emissions set by the Paris Agreement on climate.

That’s the central conclusion of a new report by Oil Change International (OCI), a U.S. research and advocacy group dedicated to exposing the full costs of fossil fuel extraction.

“There is no scenario in which tar sands production increases and the world achieves the Paris goals,” says the report. [ http://priceofoil.org/2017/01/19/climat ... ris-goals/ ]

Along with 176 other nations, Canada pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 with the goal of limiting global temperatures to a two degree Celsius increase.

“For all Prime Minister Trudeau’s positive diplomacy in Paris, if he approves a pipeline, he will be the one to make the goals impossible to reach,” says the report.

The problem, explains the report, is not just bitumen’s high carbon footprint (about 17 per cent more than conventional oil) but that pipelines drive bitumen expansion and that high-cost tar sands mining projects can last for 50 years.

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