Parliamentary leader Elizabeth May and former Sask. premier Brad Wall debate the state of the oil sector and what the industry could look like.
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Excuse me, Mr. Blanchet, but … If ʹoil is deadʹ, what about coal and petroleum coke – of which your new cement plants, given a pass by the Trudeau government without environmental regulation – heavily relies? Because, perhaps you were not aware, but the cement industry emits more carbon dioxide than the worldʹs crude oil production. According to Stanford University (Aug 30 2018) ։ ʺin 2015, nearly 9,000 oilfields in 90 countries produced greenhouse gases equivalent to 1.7 gigatons,ʺ where 1.7 gigatons = 1.7 billion tonnes. Yet, from The Guardian (Feb 25 2019) ։ ʺIf the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world with up to 2.8 bn tonnes, surpassed only by China and the US.ʺ In other words, the manufacture of concrete creates 65% more emissions than the global production of crude oil. Besides, last I checked, concrete does not exactly pay this country′s bills, let alone Quebec′s.
Furthermore, because *wind power uses more than 32ⅹ the amount of concrete as natural gas for each MW of energy generation* (870 cubic metres vs. 27 cubic metres), which necessitates coal – that emits 31% more carbon dioxide than oil and 70% more than natural gas for each unit of energy – then, aside from the obvious drawbacks of intermittency and the giant expanse of land required, just how is renewable energy going to be the earthʹs saviour?
Source (copy + paste, remove the space) ։ theguardian. com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth
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Thank you for putting these facts out . we know the left will try an prove you are wrong .
Its quebec they are “special” .
I think may should start living 100 percent without fossil fuels immediately see how she lives then walk to Ottawa
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She can start by giving up her Dodge Viper
A woman who is stepping down from a party with her two seats ,why give her such a platform for her crazy ideas .?
I too wondered that?
cockshuttboy20 Ivan Grant exactly
Exactly!
Look at May she has eyeglasses earphones clothing artwork heated painted home/office cellphone computers everything we use wouldn’t happen without petroleum …..
daddyo mcdee she’s a hypocrit and obnoxious.
Green party will soon be gone forever its been a slice
broadstbulldog66 if you like the way you’ve been living for the paste 2 months then vote green as this will be the green reality if they had their way.
wish the Liberals were gone forever too!
Stop giving anything else to Quebec
Exactly!
Evan why do you not ask her the really hard questions i.e. how does she fly to Ottawa, drive her car, heat her home? Seriously how brain dead can you be. Some legacy she is leaving for her children. Ugh
I will never understand why everyone in Canada would not want to use our own resource, why can we not be oil rich? I DON’T GET IT!😭👀😭
Canada can’t be oil rich because oil sands oil for the forseeable future is far too expensive to extract and far too expensive to transport.
Trevor Pickersgill, SIT DOWN because to anyone informed on the Oil&Gas Industry like myself, your comment is just dumb..
I don’t know when my politicians got dosed and became a bunch of touchy feely hippies.. but I hate it.. can we get back to reality please?
Green party is dead
Didn’t the drunken lizard step down?
LOL
Betty May, you look and speak like you’ve had a stroke.
No stroke……she’s just drunk again!
Commie stooge should practice what she preaches like not driving a viper herself.
I like Brad better
There IS no climate crisis!!
Reset Canada, we deserve a better federal system.
The largest Canadian export is oil & gas. 80% of the World’s oil is controlled by eight countries and we are number three. The second largest export is auto & auto parts; auto industry is down some 86%. Want to end oil & gas? Welcome to poverty.
best premier we ever had, wish he was our prime minister.
She has no idea what Shes talking about
Elizabeth has dead eyes, like debie wasserman schultz. Very, very creepy.