Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes’ op-ed was published in the Toronto Star.

From the article:

I recently authored a report that crunched the numbers on what B.C. and Alberta’s plans for fossil fuel expansion mean in light of the Paris Agreement.

In 2014 (the most recent year for which we have data), Canada’s emissions were 28 per cent above the 2030 target. Meaning, even with existing levels of oil and gas production, we have our work cut out for us.

But Alberta’s new Climate Leadership Plan allows for a 47 per cent increase in oilsands emissions from 2014 levels (up to a maximum cap of 100 million tonnes per year). And B.C. plans to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export industry, aiming for five large LNG terminals to export fracked gas from province’s northeast. This means a large ramp up of emissions from natural gas production as well.