I've read in the past that in Canada, despite being a stable mining jurisdiction with little or no sovereign risk, it's almost impossible and/or takes an age to get a mining permit. It is what it is as far as I'm concerned. Once we have the permit and the merger is complete it will be onwards and upwards.
Yes the fires have had a negative impact but they will be more numerous and much worse in the future.
Oh Canada, stop it with the horrific tar/oil sands mining purlease!
Has anyone (or is it just me) drawn a direct link between the Alberta tar sands extremely high carbon emissions intensity and the raging bushfires?
"Measured Canadian oil sands CO2 emissions are higher than estimates made using internationally recommended methodsJohn Liggio, Shao-Meng Li, Ralf M. Staebler, Katherine Hayden, Andrea Darlington, Richard L. Mittermeier, Jason O’Brien, Robert McLaren, Mengistu Wolde, Doug Worthy & Felix Vogel Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 1863 (2019) Cite this article20k Accesses42 Citations528 AltmetricMetricsdetailsAn Author Correction to this article was published on 29 November 2022
AbstractThe oil and gas (O&G) sector represents a large source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. However, estimates of O&G emissions rely upon bottom-up approaches, and are rarely evaluated through atmospheric measurements. Here, we use aircraft measurements over the Canadian oil sands (OS) to derive the first top-down, measurement-based determination of the their annual CO2 emissions and intensities. The results indicate that CO2 emission intensities for OS facilities are 13–123% larger than those estimated using publically available data. This leads to 64% higher annual GHG emissions from surface mining operations, and 30% higher overall OS GHG emissions (17 Mt) compared to that reported by industry, despite emissions reporting which uses the most up to date and recommended bottom-up approaches. Given the similarity in bottom-up reporting methods across the entire O&G sector, these results suggest that O&G CO2 emissions inventory data may be more uncertain than previously considered."
