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Category Archives: Climate Change
Aldyen Donnelly: What about our dear oilsands?
Oilsands operations have very different GHG profiles. The over-simple analysis that Berkeley’s Energy Group has done, to date, does not tell the whole story. The analysis suggests (more or less accurately) that if we use oilsands feedstocks to make gasoline, the full fuel cycle GHGs are high relative to conventional sweet crude.
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Presentation to The Standing Committee on General Government
(Nov. 2, 2009) Presentation to The Standing Committee on General Government
Re: Bill 185, Environmental Protection Amendment Act
(Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), 2009 Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: Canada short-changed in the US cap and trade bills
In summary, US cap and trade will oblige US producers AND IMPORTERS of petroleum products, liquids from coal, natural gas and biofuels to surrender US GHG allowances covering the US GHGs arising from the US end-use of those products. Then, there is a free allocation of US GHG allowances to US refineries and US natural gas distributors. The gas LDCs are obliged to sell their free allowances to raise cash to mitigate the impact of cap and trade on residential and commercial customer prices.
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Enjoy the warmth while it lasts
(October 31, 2009) Thank your lucky stars to be alive on Earth at this time. Our planet is usually in a deep freeze. The last million years have cycled through Ice Ages that last about 100,000 years each, with warmer slivers of about 10,000 years in between. Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: More on the ‘intensity versus absolute’ emissions debate
In a recent article, Dow Chemical spokesman Jonathan Moser said intensity targets are incompatible with a national cap-and-trade plan, particularly given the desire to make it compatible with a proposed regulatory system in the United States.
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Aldyen Donnelly: Creating an effective Renewable Energy Standard for Canada
Many supporters in the reduction of greenhouse gases say that the most effective way to do so would be to NOT license further capacity without retiring existing capacity. Nor should capacity to support fossil fuel-based transport be expanded. One way to keep cars off the road is to stop building roads—forcing consumers and businesses to make do with existing infrastructure of that sort and facilitate shift to other modes
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Aldyen Donnelly: Pacific Carbon Trust actually pays $50/TCO2e, or gets nothing for their $25, depending on how you look at it
The BC government’s Pacific Carbon Trust (PCT) pays private entities $25/TCO2e for greenhouse gas "credits" that are acquired to offset provincial government GHG emissions.
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The high risks of climate-change policy
(October 23, 2009) I’m here to tell you that there are no such likelihoods. That there is no consensus on climate change. That the science that the doomsayers describe cannot credibly be seen as having the weight of scientific opinion behind it. Continue reading
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The Free Luncher, Exelon: Sources
Exelon CEO Says Climate Change Legislation Remains Urgent Issue, Pushes for Price on Carbon
Outline for John Rowe’s Keynote Speech at American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
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The high risks of climate-change policy
(October 23, 2009) Earlier this week, I addressed a meeting of the Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for National Security in Winnipeg. An abbreviated version of my presentation appears below. Continue reading
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