REPORT: Climate Implications - Energy East Pipeline

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Climate Implications of the Proposed Energy East Pipeline - A Preliminary Assessment

[ http://www.pembina.org/pub/2519 ]

Published Feb. 6, 2014

By Clare Demerse, Erin Flanagan

In August 2013, TransCanada announced its intention to build a pipeline and export terminal project called Energy East. The proposed route would run from Alberta to New Brunswick, and the pipeline would have the capacity to transport 1.1 million barrels per day of crude oil.

Climate Implications of the Proposed Energy East Pipeline provides a preliminary assessment of Energy East's impact on Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. It estimates the proposed pipeline’s upstream impact as being between 30 and 32 million tonnes of annual emissions.


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[ http://www.pembina.org/pub/2519 ]


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Crunching the numbers on Canada’s biggest pipeline proposal

[ http://www.pembina.org/blog/777 ]

Erin Flanagan — Feb. 6, 2014

Recent oilsands pipeline proposals — most notably Northern Gateway and Keystone XL — have become flashpoints in the public debate about energy development and its environmental impacts. In light of that ongoing debate, we expect that the Energy East proposal will receive similar scrutiny from Canadians.

To help inform the debate over Energy East, the Pembina Institute has published a new report about the potential climate impacts associated with the proposed pipeline. Our research shows that producing the crude required to fill the pipeline would significantly increase Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and make it even more difficult to meet our climate targets.

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REPORT: Climate Implications of the Proposed Energy East Pipeline:
[ http://www.pembina.org/pub/2519 ]