{"id":65369,"date":"2019-04-24T04:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T08:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=65369"},"modified":"2021-01-29T08:05:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T13:05:40","slug":"can-canadians-handle-climate-change-truths-david-wilkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/can-canadians-handle-climate-change-truths-david-wilkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Canadians handle climate-change truths? ~ David Wilkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new federal carbon tax has ignited the political global-warming fires, right on queue for the federal election. First, a quick recap from my <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/getting-the-transition-to-a-post-carbon-energy-future-right-dave-wilkin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">past articles<\/a><\/span>. The latest <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/sr15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IPCC report<\/a><\/span> warned us only 12 years remain to cut global carbon emissions in half, on the path to zero-emissions in 30 years. This establishes the near-term boundary to transition from today\u2019s carbon-energy economy. The outside boundary is about 50 years due to depletion of proven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bp.com\/en\/global\/corporate\/energy-economics\/energy-outlook.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">global \u201ceconomically viable\u201d oil and gas reserves<\/span>. <\/a>Led by China and India, global emissions rose <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/carbon-pollution-increase-1.4934096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2.7 per cent in 2018<\/a><\/span>, but likely much more <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/guest-post-chinas-co2-emissions-grew-slower-than-expected-in-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">due to significant discrepancies in China\u2019s reported coal consumption<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The Liberal government\u2019s climate-change plan demand-side features a small carbon tax and some energy saving incentives\/subsidies. More concerning, their restrictive supply-side policies strangle our carbon-energy sector. Our economy will need this revenue stream to help fund the future energy transition. We have a highly motivated buyer, the USA \u2013 without secure Canadian oil (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcan.gc.ca\/energy\/facts\/crude-oil\/20064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">99% of our oil exports<\/span>), <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bp.com\/en\/global\/corporate\/energy-economics\/energy-outlook.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">they have just ten years of proven reserves remaining<\/span><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now to debunk the political rhetoric:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The carbon tax reduces emissions<\/strong>. The Liberal $20\/ton tax ($50 by 2022) will have no meaningful impact on consumption behavior. To do so, the tax would need to be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/energy-environment\/413394-flaw-in-un-climate-report-china-india-will-never-impose-carbon-tax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">much higher<\/a>.<\/span> Worse, its costs are hidden, regressive, and ripple through the entire economy. My table below clearly shows Ontario, without a carbon tax, handily beat both BC and Quebec (each with carbon-pricing) on key metrics (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieso.ca\/en\/Corporate-IESO\/Media\/Year-End-Data#yearenddata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assisted by nuclear and wind replacing coal<\/a><\/span>). Even the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bp.com\/en\/global\/corporate\/energy-economics\/energy-outlook.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA managed an 13 per cent decline<\/a><\/span> without a carbon tax. Global climate-leader Sweden, with a high carbon tax, is included for comparisons &#8211; they achieved a 29 per cent emissions decline in 10 years. It\u2019s little surprise then that only 20 per cent of all countries (80 per cent European &#8211; geographically small, lacking carbon-energy sectors) have carbon-pricing, covering just <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/programs\/pricing-carbon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13 per cent of global emissions<\/a><\/span>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65392\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-23-at-9.38.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-23-at-9.38.56-PM-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-23-at-9.38.56-PM.png 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong> PM Trudeau says: <\/strong>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwnenergy.com\/article\/2018\/10\/trudeaus-wrong-headed-approach-climate-change-gwyn-morgan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fighting climate change and growing the economy go hand-in-hand<\/a><\/span><strong>\u201d. <\/strong>This totally ignores the scale of the coming transformation &#8211; replacing our carbon-energy system. The cost is never discussed, so the table below shows my ball-park estimates, built from recent <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/outlooks\/aeo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US EIA <\/a><\/span>and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neb-one.gc.ca\/nrg\/ntgrtd\/mrkt\/nrgsstmprfls\/pe-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Energy Board<\/a><\/span> data. The electrical system capital cost for blended Scenario D, is  approximately $3 trillion, excluding customer\/business equipment replacement costs and business competitive losses (point four below). This builds a new <em>smart<\/em> electrical system with approximately four times the current electrical system capacity, removing &gt;90% of emissions. For context, this capital cost is <em>1.5 times our entire economy<\/em> GDP, almost tripling hydro rates and raising heating costs six-seven times (vs. natural gas today). Canada\u2019s oil and gas sector\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcan.gc.ca\/energy\/facts\/energy-economy\/20062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">900,000 dependent jobs<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcan.gc.ca\/energy\/facts\/energy-economy\/20062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$220B of GDP<\/a><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.international.gc.ca\/investors-investisseurs\/assets\/pdfs\/download\/Oil_and_Gas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$182 Billion<\/a><\/span> in Foreign Direct Investment cut in half, or more. This is risk cost. It will take many decades to complete with costs and impacts varying significantly by province. There is growth in the electrical and nuclear power sectors, but far from offsetting the costs &#8211; <em>a serious energy supply-side strategy is long over-due.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65393\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-23-at-9.40.16-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-23-at-9.40.16-PM-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-23-at-9.40.16-PM.png 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Renewable wind and solar energy \u2018is the future\u2019. <\/strong>In Canada (and globally) this energy represents approximately 1.5 per cent of all energy (electrical sector  approximately 5 per cent). Its share is growing, but due to its highly intermittent nature, it\u2019s much more expensive and is \u2018grid-capped\u2019, meaning beyond an approximately <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieso.ca\/en\/Corporate-IESO\/Media\/Year-End-Data#yearenddata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 per cent share<\/a><\/span> (in Canada), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/610366\/relying-on-renewables-alone-would-significantly-raise-the-cost-of-overhauling-the-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">very expensive power storage and extra capacity supply<\/a><\/span> grows rapidly. Without substantial growth in Advanced Nuclear power, by 2040 carbon-sourced energy still provides over 70 per cent of our energy. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/topics\/carbon-capture-and-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carbon capture and storage<\/a><\/span> will help, but it is growing much too slowly.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Real emission reductions are required from <em>developed<\/em> countries &#8211; only. <\/strong>Rapid growth in developing countries, led by China and India, doubles global GDP by 2040 (80 per cent from  approximately <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/esa.un.org\/unpd\/wpp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2.5 billion people joining the middle-class<\/a><\/span>), growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bp.com\/en\/global\/corporate\/energy-economics\/energy-outlook.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">energy demand 32 per cent<\/span>.<\/a> They made only weak commitments to <em>lower emission intensity (to GDP) not actual emissions<\/em>, meaning emissions rise regardless of developed countries&#8217; actions. Getting an emissions-reduction pass further disadvantages our manufacturing sector, already hollowed-out over the last 20 years. It is na\u00efve to expect them to follow our \u201clead\u201d, voluntarily prioritizing emission reductions over economic\/middle-class growth. What geniuses negotiated this deal? Perhaps fear of running out of affordable oil and gas (sooner) will have more success?<\/li>\n<li><strong> Immigration\u2019s impact on climate change \u2013 only government silence. <\/strong>Canada takes in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2019\/03\/new-immigrants-made-up-61-of-canadas-population-growth-in-2018-0312086.html#gs.4pj52o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approximately 360,000 immigrants per year<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> ( about 1 per cent of the population, excluding temporary workers), driving &gt;80% of our population growth. Here\u2019s the problem: most come from <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economicshelp.org\/blog\/10296\/economics\/top-co2-polluters-highest-per-capita\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">countries with 1\/4 our carbon intensity\/capita<\/a>.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> Maintaining the<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3782202\/450000-immigration-target-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> planned 1.1 per cent immigration rate<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">, adds another 6 million to <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/pub\/91-520-x\/91-520-x2014001-eng.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canada\u2019s population (up 16 per cent) by 2030<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">. This adds to global emissions and at our current intensity improvement rate, 87 MTCO<\/span><sub>2<\/sub><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">E more to Canada\u2019s 2030 emissions target gap. For context, that\u2019s more than <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ec.gc.ca\/ges-ghg\/default.asp?lang=En&amp;n=1F24D9EE-1.&amp;offset=2&amp;toc=hide&amp;wbdisable=true#fn4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the emissions from all our passenger vehicles<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> today. Is this wise?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I understand these are tough messages, but Canadians need to understand the truth if we are to take meaningful actions and avoid catastrophic blunders. Trudeau\u2019s plans create the <em>illusion<\/em> of fighting climate-change \u2013 buzz words and minimalist actions to acquiesce\/fool the people \u2013 while weakening Canada\u2019s economy in the process. Let\u2019s see if the other political parties have better plans.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dave Wilkin, Masters, Electrical Engineering, P. Eng.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! 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