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Originally Posted by Azure

I still maintain that Alberta & Canada has what you can call a moral responsibility to export our oil & gas to the rest of the world to help mitigate climate change.

It is nice to see some higher ups in the industry jumping on that train. We haven't done a very good job selling it that part of the equation.

Gas yes, oil maybe not. Despite advances the oil sands have higher emissions intensity than most other sources. I haven’t been able to find any data to the contrary.

Trouble is, a close look at the leading comparisons of the world’s crude oil sources, assembled by governments, academics and private-sector analysts, shows that, overall, producing a barrel of crude from oil sands still emits more greenhouse gas than the average of all sources. The best or newest oil sands developments, whose emissions are below the mean, remain exceptions. “You have a lot of amazing trees here. But it is not the forest,” says Benjamin Israel, senior analyst at the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think tank.

https://www.macleans.ca/economy/scru...-sands-record/