Many Quebec and Ontario Liberal MPs are opposed to Teck’s $20.6-billion Frontier oilsands project, since its development would add four megatonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually for 40 years, making it more difficult to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Albertans find the opposition to the project particularly galling, since Frontier will create thousands of jobs and $55 billion in federal and provincial tax revenues, while achieving a significant reduction in GHG emissions per barrel. Oil, gas and coal demand would fall to 35 per cent of the energy supply, instead of 82 per cent today. Other factors also affect temperatures, and besides, climate computer models predict a wide range of temperature change, from 2 C to 4.5 C, if GHG emissions are doubled. Jack M. Mintz is the President’s Fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy.

Source: National Post February 12, 2020 11:26 UTC