Energy Issue

Some would have you believe it's all about fossil fuels but the story has two parts the local, and
the world. In each part there are many mixes involved.
On the production side
1. Extraction of: rare earth minerals, coal mining, fossil fuels,
2. Processing of: Coal
3. Processing of: Fossil fuels (gasoline, diesel, LPG, LNG, kerosine, butaine)
4. Processing of: minerals (Copper, Nickel, Tin, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, Lithium, Steel, Aluminum)
5. Geo-thermo Processing, Hydro processing, Solar processing, Wind processing
6. Electric Energy grids
7. Shipping to Local and foreign markets by, (rail, trucks, pipelines, ships)

Items 1 to 4 have heavy carbon footprint in the extraction and processing area. Items 5 to 7 are very low
footprint. Of the list, Coal is by far the most damaging to the planet. Mining Coal can permanently
contaminate the fresh water table. It however, is highly desired by USA, China, and most developing countries.
The Fossil fuels produce very high emissions of CO2 during processing which the emissions cap and
carbon levy are in place to force producers to develope carbon capture and storage methods.

LNG and LPG are fives times cleaner than the other fossil fuels and 25 times cleaner than Coal. So
they are a valuable means of exporting to foreign markets. Locally, use of items in 5 and LNG/LPG are
great methods to produce electricity. Inter-linking Energy grids allows clean energy to service all
our countries needs.

On the distribution side
Canada has a huge number of First Nation tribes that
share their land with Canada by treaties. So when we
want to talk pipelines, powerlines, roads, railways
that are desired to cross native lands they must be in
all negotiations.

Far too often developers and provinces do not consult
with First nations or offer them a stake in employment
or profits from the venture. In addition, potential risks
from noise, splills, etc. are not addressed.

Our country has a huge number of resources mined or
extracted by foreign companies that invest in our
country. Much of the processing is not done here. We
need to change this.







With the exception of the trans mountain pipeline, All
our oil and gas resources go to the states at reduced
price and bought back after processing at an inflated cost.

We need to expand to the east, west and north to service
our needs without USA involvement and to provide LNG to
world markets.

I have included a northern route on the map. We can do
our own processing here.


Roads and railways may service much of our needs to
main population centers. They do not even come close
to remote or northern areas. Many northern comunities
are only serviced by Air.

Power lines need to inter-link grids between provinces
and service isolated communities.