TrickyRicky
Senior Member
I took a quick look at electrical production by source by province from statscan data. The only province’s significantly reliant on fossil fuels in coal or nat gas form are Alberta, Sask, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Everyone else is getting to 95% renewable plus nuclear.
If we built one nuclear reactor in the prairies and one in the maritime plus Ontario could import a small amount of Quebec hydro power, Canada could essentially go carbon free with respect to our power grid.
Why go on about the power grid? Because I feel the emphasis is on transportation fuels which is backwards. It’s great that people in Japan take electrified public transit and California is pushing EV adoption but if your power grid is 80% burning fossil fuels those measures are incredibly inefficient at reducing CO2 emissions.
Canada has a real chance at making cuts in CO2 emissions because of the electrical grid not being reliant on fossil fuels. An EV for instance in Canada would cut almost all it’s operational carbon footprint over a conventional vehicle whereas in Japan or the US it would only cut something like 20%.
If we built one nuclear reactor in the prairies and one in the maritime plus Ontario could import a small amount of Quebec hydro power, Canada could essentially go carbon free with respect to our power grid.
Why go on about the power grid? Because I feel the emphasis is on transportation fuels which is backwards. It’s great that people in Japan take electrified public transit and California is pushing EV adoption but if your power grid is 80% burning fossil fuels those measures are incredibly inefficient at reducing CO2 emissions.
Canada has a real chance at making cuts in CO2 emissions because of the electrical grid not being reliant on fossil fuels. An EV for instance in Canada would cut almost all it’s operational carbon footprint over a conventional vehicle whereas in Japan or the US it would only cut something like 20%.