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Canada Announces Carbon Emission Caps for Oil and Gas Sectors | The Trudeau government has focused on the oil and gas production industries because the large amounts of energy they use make them the c (www.nytimes.com)

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14921311

I think they're covering scope 1 and 2 emissions, but not scope 3. That is to say that they're trying to limit emissions during extraction, transportation of fossil fuels, and refining (and from the electricity those use) but not from when the fossil fuels are burned.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

to clean up a mess they directly contributed to and made worse

Not only that but they spend so much money on advertising and lobbying to undermine public understanding and remediation of. These 'pillage the planet now and deny all negative effects' assclowns are the last people who should be given money to address aspects of the climate crisis. They need federal oversight, not funding