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The Canadian oil and gas industry produces "60 per cent of all industrial emissions in Canada" [5] and Alberta has the largest oil and gas industry in the country. [5] By September 2017, Alberta had already begun "implementing broad climate change policies" including a "sophisticated two-tier carbon pricing system" for consumers and major emitters.
Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) established in 2009 by the Province of Alberta, is an independent organization that establishes or participates in "funding initiatives that reduce GHG emissions or improve our ability to adapt to climate change." [12] In April 2007, Alberta became the first jurisdiction in North ...
University of Alberta professor Mike Flannigan, said the extended wildfire season, which used to start April 1 and now officially starts on March 1, and that he and his colleagues "attribute that to human-caused climate change." [54] The Calgary Herald reported that because of climate change, in the coming years, the prairie provinces would ...
As to 2019, climate change has already increased wildfires frequency and power in Canada, especially in Alberta. "We are seeing climate change in action," says University of Alberta wildland fire Prof. Mike Flannigan. "The Fort McMurray fire was 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 to six times more likely because of climate change. The 2017 record-breaking B.C. fire ...
In 2012–2013, on a leave from the University of Alberta as Visiting Scholar, Leach spent a year at Environment Canada working on "greenhouse gas policy for the oil and gas sector." [ 4 ] Leach was Chair of Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Panel in 2015.
Friends of Science (FoS) is a non-profit advocacy organization based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The organization rejects the established scientific consensus that humans are largely responsible for the currently observed global warming. Rather, they propose that "the Sun is the main direct and indirect driver of climate change," not human ...
During his tenure as the director of the Calgary branch of the Fraser Institute from 1999 to 2005, Cooper began to focus on climate change. He invited Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish climate change denier who also worked with the Friends of Science to provide arguments against climate change, [13] to Calgary.
He became Calgary's 35th mayor. [3] Bronconnier was re-elected in 2004 [1] with nearly 80% of the votes. Only 18% of the population voted, making it the lowest voter turnout for a municipal election in Western Canada. [4] He campaigned for re-election in the 2007 Calgary municipal election and was re-elected with 61% of the votes. [5]