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Canada will match other industrialized nations' CO2 cuts: PM
by Staff Writers
Ottawa (AFP) April 23, 2015


CO2 per barrel down in Canada, Statoil says
Calgary, Alberta (UPI) Apr 23, 2015 - Norwegian energy company Statoil said Thursday its environmental footprint at a Canadian oil sands project had improved amid record production.

The company took full ownership of the Leismer oil sands project in Canada last year. Critics of Canadian oil sands production argue its more carbon intensive to produce than other lighter crude oil grades. A steam injection method used by rival Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. to warm viscous oil last year ran out of control, causing long-term seepage in Alberta.

Statoil said Leismer reached a record level of production at the end of 2014 with 20,000 barrels of oil per day. Carbon dioxide emissions per barrel, meanwhile, decreased by around 4 percent, though total emissions increased because of steam injection at new Leismer wells.

Last year, the company said it was looking at more than a dozen different technologies it may test long-term in an effort to curb CO2 emissions from its oil sands operations in Canada.

"In keeping with our step-wise approach to oil sands development, in 2014 we focused our efforts on improving the economics of oil sands recovery and achieving lower carbon intensity while reducing our impacts on the environment," Statoil Canada President Stale Tungesvik said in a statement.

In terms of water use, the company said it used less fresh water at its steam injection sites in favor of saline solutions.

Statoil Chief Executive Officer Eldar Saetre said during a Wednesday address at an energy conference in Houston it was incumbent upon the industry to do more to address climate concerns.

"Delivering all the oil and gas that a growing population needs is a major challenge," he said. "Delivering it with low costs and low carbon will require even more."

Statoil last year shelved the multibillion dollar Corner project in Canada, citing increased construction costs and a lack of pipeline infrastructure.

Canada will set a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that will be "similar" to those of other industrialized nations, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday after the country published higher historical emissions data.

The new target, he said, would be announced in May.

"It's unlikely our targets will be exactly the same as the United States, but they will be targets of similar levels of ambition to other major industrialized countries," Harper said.

The prime minister has repeatedly called for a continental approach to tackling climate change.

Canada had set a target for reducing emissions by 17 percent below their 2005 levels by 2020, but Ottawa said it would miss the mark.

Recently Canada revised its emissions data from 1990 to 2013 under new UN reporting rules, showing it had higher carbon dioxide emissions each year and a doubling of emissions from its oil sands.

Last month, the US government formally pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28 percent from 2005 levels within the next decade.

The European Union is planner to go even further with deeper cuts.

In December, global leaders are expected to meet in Paris to thrash out a binding mechanism for reducing emissions.

A government report noted that Canada is one of the highest per-capita CO2 emitters, but added that it represents less than two percent of global emissions.

Harper said "there will have to be additional regulatory measures going forward to achieve the targets."

However he said he would not consider bringing in a carbon tax, or any measure that might "kill jobs."

"Anybody who tells you that a carbon tax is an environmental policy is trying to pull the wool over your eyes," he said.

"The reason they do carbon taxes, it's not to reduce emissions but put more tax revenue in the government's pocket."


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