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Deafcat22 t1_j9hprv7 wrote

What's worse, really:

You show the provincial government of Saskatchewan these thorough figures, they won't bat an eye. We have a highly conservative government here with seemingly little care regarding emissions and greenhouse gases.

In all of Canada, our province also has the highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the nation... We're #1 even without being honest about how much we're actually emitting (no doubt much more, all across the board).

(Edit: in gross emissions, we're #4 highest, but only the 6th most populous province).

It is rather embarrassing. Especially when considering the long term negative impacts Canada is sure to experience from climate change.

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garlicroastedpotato t1_j9iekf1 wrote

Oh... the politics is actually SIGNIFICANTLY worse than this.

This is the second survey of its kind using this technology in Canada. The first was in Canada which found very similar results.... under estimated emissions.

Basically the problem is that the federal government has a very optimistic target for greenhouse gas emissions reductions by 2030. They are reliant on the numbers being as useful for them to get to that goal as possible. If it turned out that the oil industry was actually producing 30% more GHGs than reported.

The problem is we use a system called the Inventory System which was designed in 1997 to measure the Kyoto Goals. Instead of measuring actual pollution they just took the measure of creating a product (average) and then just multiplied it by the total product created.

It's in absolutely everyone in Canada's interest to lie about the carbon totals.

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