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Pursuing Clean Growth in Atlantic Canada

19 Jul 2018

The Canadian government, along with the provinces and territories, issued the Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth and Climate Change in March 2016, reaffirming Canada’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, and outlining a “vision and principles” that will guide the transition towards “sustainable and clean economic growth.”2 This commitment resulted in the release of the Pan-Canadian Framework on [...] Nationally, oil and gas accounts for 26% of emissions, in large part due to Alberta’s oil and gas industry; regionally, this industry is only a sizeable source of emissions in Newfoundland and Labrador (20%) because of its offshore oil industry, and in New Brunswick (19%), due to the oil refinery in Saint John. [...] Reductions in emissions from electricity generation made the largest contributions to the reduction in GHGs in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, accounting for two-thirds and one-half of the emissions reductions in their provinces respectively (Table 2.3). [...] This allowed the closure of two thermal 10 Atlantic Provinces Economic Council July 2018 Pursuing Clean Growth in Atlantic Canada: Progress, Challenges and Policy Priorities generation stations in New Brunswick, which accounted for 70% of the reduction in New Brunswick’s GHG emissions from thermal generation between 2007 and 2014.11 Figure 2.2 GHG Emissions Have Fallen Sharply in the Maritime Prov [...] In Canada, NOx and SOx have declined due to a combination of tighter emissions regulations on the transportation and electric power generation sectors; the closure of coal-fired electricity generation units; and changes in industrial processes, including smelting.19 The challenge is that there is no single indicator of air quality.
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136
Published in
Halifax, NS, CA

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