Download or read book Canada s Fossil Energy Future written by EcoENERGY Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage was established by the Alberta and Federal Governments in March, 2007. Its mandate is to provide advice on how government and industry can work together to facilitate and support the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) opportunities in Canada ... Steve Snyder (Task Force Chair), President and Chief Executive Officer, TransAlta Corportation -- p. i.
Download or read book The Future of Fossil Fuel written by Calgary Institute for the Humanities and published by Calgary : Calgary Institute for the Humanities. This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada s Fossil Energy Future the Way Forward on Carbon Capture and Storage written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Renewable Energy Transition written by John Erik Meyer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada is a well-endowed country that serves as an ideal model to lead the reader through the development of energy, resources, and society historically and into a post-carbon future. The book provides an historical perspective and describes the physical resource limitations, energy budgets, and climate realities that will determine the potential for any transition to renewable energy. Political and social realities, including jurisdiction and energy equality issues, are addressed. However, we cannot simply mandate or legislate policies according to social and political aspirations. Policies must comply with the realities of physical laws, such as the energy return on investment (EROI) for fossil-fuel based and renewable energy systems. EROI is discussed in both historical terms and in reference to the greater efficiencies inherent in a distributed generation, mainly electric, post-carbon society. Meyer explores the often misleading concepts and terms that have become embedded in society and tend to dictate our policy making, as well as the language, social and personal goals, and metrics that need to change before the physical transition can begin at the required scale. This book also reviews what nations have been doing thus far in terms of renewables, including the successes and failures in Canada and across the globe. Ontario’s green energy fiasco, and a comparison of the different circumstances of Norway and Alberta, for example, are covered as part of the author’s comparison of a wide range of countries. What are the achievements, plans, and problems that determine how well different countries are positioned to make “the transition”? The transition path is complex, and the tools we need to develop and the physical infrastructure investments we need to make, are daunting. At some point in time, Canada and Canadians, like all nations, will be living on 100% renewable energy. Whether the social and technological level that endures sees us travelling to the stars, or subsisting at a standard of living more similar to the pre-fossil fuel era, is far from certain.
Download or read book Technology and Policy Options for a Low Emission Energy System in Canada written by The Expert Panel on Energy Use and Climate Change and published by Council of Canadian Academies. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and Policy Options for a Low-Emission Energy System in Canada is an up-to-date, accessible review of options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and moving Canada toward a low-emission future. It provides an overview of Canada’s energy system, an analysis of different energy sources and technologies, and an exploration of the public policies available to support a shift toward low-emission energy sources and technologies.
Download or read book Sustainable Fossil Fuels written by Mark Jaccard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more people believe we must quickly wean ourselves from fossil fuels - oil, natural gas and coal - to save the planet from environmental catastrophe, wars and economic collapse. In this 2006 book, Professor Jaccard argues that this view is misguided. We have the technological capability to use fossil fuels without emitting climate-threatening greenhouse gases or other pollutants. The transition from conventional oil and gas to their unconventional sources including coal for producing electricity, hydrogen and cleaner-burning fuels will decrease energy dependence on politically unstable regions. In addition, our vast fossil fuel resources will be the cheapest source of clean energy for the next century and perhaps longer, which is critical for the economic and social development of the world's poorer countries. By buying time for increasing energy efficiency, developing renewable energy technologies and making nuclear power more attractive, fossil fuels will play a key role in humanity's quest for a sustainable energy system.
Download or read book Fossil Future written by Alex Epstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world’s poorest people. And contrary to what we hear from media “experts” about today’s “renewable revolution” and “climate emergency,” reality has proven Epstein right: Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast—while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts. Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low. Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development. What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive “human flourishing framework” to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at “climate mastery,” and establishing “energy freedom” policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential. Today’s pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the “anti-impact framework”—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media’s designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate.
Download or read book Power Narrative and Energy Transitions in the Fossil Fuel Landscapes of North America written by Megan Egler and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgency of energy transition is driven by growing public concerns around climate change and is underpinned with a desire for a more sustainable and equitable world. However, these more sustainable and equitable worlds are being negotiated on uneven terrains of power that privilege counterintuitive positions on the necessity of, and approach to, the phase out of fossil fuels, and favor initiatives that continue unequal distributions of wealth and resources. This dissertation investigates the obstacles in the way of just and ecological futures by scrutinizing the relationship between power, narrative, and materialities within the socioeconomic structures of our current capitalist system. To do so, it situates around contemporary energy transitions within the physical and cultural landscapes of historical fossil fuel regions in Canada and the United States. In the first study, I explore the production and circulation of narratives shaping pro-fossil fuel energy discourses in Canada. I use computational text analysis methods to unpack the narrative of Canadian energy constructed by a government funded provincial corporation in Alberta and identify a number of discursive tactics commonly used by the fossil fuel industry to reify fossil fuels' dominance. In the second study I draw on the experiences of individuals employed in the oil and gas industry in northern Alberta and West Texas to theorize the relationship between the alienation of workers and the adoption of narratives in defense of capital. I demonstrate how the structure of employment and the nature of work in the industry lead to conflicting conceptualizations of self and meaningful work. This conflict is exploited by fossil fuel actors to perpetuate subjectivities in support of continued extraction. The third study analyzes energy transition initiatives that leverage the landscapes and infrastructures of fossil fuels' past to operationalize narratives of just and ecological futures. Through a critical analysis of two projects developing solar projects on former fossil fuel sites in Alberta and Appalachia, I explore what it means to enact a just transition. While both initiatives address histories of extraction, dispel the perceived threats of solar, and position themselves as promising innovations in energy transition, they differ in the ways each redistributes power or entrenches systemic inequalities. Energy transitions represent more than technological progress or a solution to climate change - they are opportunities to correct past harms, redistribute power, and imagine more desirable futures. However, in regions of historical fossil fuel extraction discursive power is being wielded to protect fossil fuel's dominance, maintain existing power dynamics, and draw communities into polarized politics around climate change and energy's future. As we work toward the enactment of just transitions, this dissertation encourages readers to contemplate the relationships between histories of exploitation, class dynamics, and ideological influences.
Download or read book Energy in Canada written by Peter R. Sinclair and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy consumption is at the core of the way Canadians live. Yet recent research indicates that North America's supply of oil--our most consumed source of primary energy--may only last until 2025. In this introduction, the author examines the history of energy production and consumption leading to the impending energy "crisis."
Download or read book ENERGY FOR THE FUTURE AND GLOBAL WARMING FOSSIL FUELS EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Energy Squeeze written by Bruce Willson and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was published in 1980, the Energy Crisis of the 1970s continued to cast a long shadow across Canadian society. Its bleak analysis of the energy future shows just how deep that shadow was--and is. Wilson's tough, uncompromising study remains important reading for anyone who wants to understand what's at stake in the politics of energy and what needs to be done by government and industry to ensure that the economy of the future will continue to run when non-renewable sources of energy run out. The Energy Squeeze combines detailed analysis of Canada's energy future with prescriptions for action--nationalized supply and pricing, for example--that reflect the crisis atmosphere of the early 1980s.
Download or read book Fossil Energy Update written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fueling the Future written by Andrew Heintzman and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that examines forms of alternate energy and promising new energy technologies which are cleaner, safer, and more reliable than oil.
Download or read book Thirty Years of Failure written by Robert MacNeil and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-13T00:00:00Z with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a climate villain, rejecting global attempts to slow climate change and ignoring ever-increasing emissions at home. How did Canada go from climate leader to climate villain? In Thirty Years of Failure, Robert MacNeil examines Canada’s changing climate policy in meticulous detail and argues that the failure of this policy is due to a perfect storm of interrelated and mutually reinforcing cultural, political and economic factors — all of which have made a functional and effective national climate strategy impossible. But as MacNeil reveals, the factors preventing a sensible, sustainable climate policy in Canada are also the keys to change, and he offers readers an understanding of the strategies and policies required to decarbonize the Canadian economy and make Canada a global leader on climate change once again.
Download or read book Images of Canadian Futures written by W. R. Derrick Sewell and published by Environment Canada, Planning and Finance Service. This book was released on 1976 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How will Canadians meet the challenge of providing their energy needs as petroleum reserves decline rapidly both here and abroad, and as the cost of replacement sources becomes much more expensive? The kind of country that Canada will become during the next quarter century is being shaped in the response to this question. The industrial, cultural and environmental future of Canada will be formed directly by the alternatives selected today to provide future energy needs. This study was undertaken on the premise that a view of the implications for the future will lead to a more optimistic prospect for Canada. There are no easy solutions to the Canadian energy situation; but the challenge fully taken should lead to a much more comfortable prospect than if decisions are made with only vague feelings of where they may lead Canadian society"--Preface.
Download or read book Energy Fact Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Energy Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
