I could have my numbers wrong but as far as I know the current CO2 production is 30 million tons per year from oil sands plants. Without some sort of regulation the plans call for a ramp up to 165 million tons – so much for Kyoto.
An intereting point is that most of the ramped up production will go to the US. The US consumes more daily oil production than the next 5 countries combined – and increasing. So what we seem to be doing as a country is allowing US interests to invest mega $ here ( like 100 billion ) to ramp up oilsand production and then they will burn it as fast as they possibily can…hmm where is the logic in this ?
