According to an expert study published in the journal Energy policyThese 12 hydrocarbon exploitation projects will generate billions and billions of tons of greenhouse gases (GHG).
They are part of a list of 425 “carbon bombs”, projects worldwide but mostly in China.
Three-quarters of these projects are concentrated in ten countries, including Canada.
According to the researchers, if all the fuels expected from these projects were extracted and burned, the targets set by the countries that signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement would not be achieved, which were used to control global warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius. The average temperature of the planet.
The oil and gas project is one of 12 projects on Canada’s “carbon bomb” list Montney PlayIn British Columbia, there are 13.7 gigatons (billion tons) of GHGs. It is one of the most polluting of the 425 “carbon bombs” listed worldwide.
The country’s coal mine is in second place Murray River (8.5 gigatonnes of GHG) and, in third place, the formation of the Spirit River (three gigatons of GHG).
In this sluggish list, Canada’s other “carbon bombs” are the Gating Coal Mine (2.1 gigaton GHz), the Horizon Oil Sand Project (2 gigat ton GHz), the Kerl and Duverne Projects (each 1.9 gigaton GHz), and the Adabasca Project 1.4 Gigatons GHz), Christina Lake Project (1.2 gigatons GHG), Learned Shale Gas Project (1.2 Gigatons), Mildred Lake Project (1.2 gigatons GHz) and Fording River Coal (1 gigaton GHG).
