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13 Canadian Fossils Linked to Massive Losses in Western Wildfires
Thirteen oil and gas companies operating or based in Canada, including five of the six that make up the Pathways Alliance oil sands lobby group, are on the list of 88 big carbon polluters now being called out for a major share of the forested lands lost to wildfires in North America between 1986 and 2021, The Energy Mix has learned.
The fossil fuel and cement companies on the longer list share responsibility for 37% of the wildfire losses over the 35-year span in the western regions of Canada and the United States, according to a new study by the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the University of California, Merced.
“Using modelling data, researchers were able to determine that emissions traced back to those 88 companies resulted in an additional 80,000 kilometres squared being burned,” CBC reported last week. “That’s an area larger than the size of Ireland.”
Get the full news report, with links to this year's early spring wildfire season, here. For more on the attribution study, visit The Energy Mix Weekender here.
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- ‘Turning Point in Energy History’ as Solar, Wind Start Pushing Fossil Fuels Off the Grid
- Lobbyists Win, UN Spins as Plastics Talks Reach ‘Weak Compromise’
- Drought Fuels Wildfire Concerns as Canada Braces for Another Intense Summer
- Critics Scorch Science-Based Targets Initiative for Allowing Carbon Offsets for Scope 3 Emissions
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