Alberta's Oil And Gas Industry Greener Than Imported Solar Panels And Wind Turbines

[Anonymous]

Alberta, and in particular, the oil and gas sector industry spends the most on the environment of any province and and any industry in Canada.



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"Who spends the most on the environment?" the answer, provincially, is Alberta. Between 2008 and 2019, Alberta spent $20.1 billion, or 17.1 per cent of all environmental expenditures by all provinces. That's high, given its population (in 2019 for example) was just 11.7 per cent of the ten-province population total.



On the opposite end is Quebec. Between 2008 and 2019, Quebec spent less than many provinces in most years and always less than Alberta. For instance, Quebec's per capita spending ranged from $179 per person in 2008 to $273 in 2019. That was lower than the Maritimes, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia in most years.



As for Alberta-Quebec comparisons, Alberta's per capita environmental spending ranged from a "low" of $334 in 2010 to a high of $653 per person in 2016, far higher than Quebec in those and other years. More broadly, per person, Alberta outspent the (other) nine-province average in every year since 2008. The range was 41 per cent to 180 per cent more depending on the year.



Turning now to industry spending, with only partial data available (Statistics Canada collects the data only every second year), between 2006 and 2018, Canada's oil and gas sector spent $28.1 billion on environmental protection, capital and operating expenses combined.



Here's how that compares to other major industries: electric power generation ($6.3 billion); mining and quarrying ($6.2 billion); primary metal manufacturing ($6.1 billion) and chemical manufacturing ($3 billion). A variety of other industries with individually smaller expenditures collectively spent $18 billion in total according to Statistic Canada.



In other words, of the $67.7 billion in environmental spending between 2006 and 2018, and even with "gap" years in the data, the oil and gas sector spent $28.1 billion or 41.5 per cent. All other industries combined spent $39.6 billion, or 58.5 per cent.

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Yes, anybody who did that probably would.

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