On November 21, 2024, Simon Dyer, Deputy Executive Director of the Pembina Institute, provided expert testimony to the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources as part of its study ‘Climate Change: Canadian Oil and Gas Industry.’
During that testimony, Senator Rosa Galvez posed a set of questions to the witnesses related to the environmental impacts of oil and gas production and the role of carbon capture and storage technology in reducing emissions from the sector.
While we regret that we cannot offer a comprehensive answer to every question, we have provided a selection of existing Pembina Institute research that we hope the committee, and Senator Galvez, will find useful.
Overall, our body of research supports our testimony that oil and gas emissions should be a priority for additional regulation, given that oilsands emissions in particular have increased by 142% since 2005, and are on a trajectory to increase further in the near term as companies continue to ramp up levels of production.
