We get questions

The Centre for Energy’s portal is loaded with factual and statistical information about Canada’s energy system. But we still get questions, like this one.

Q:  Can you point me to where I can find information on Canadian greenhouse gas emissions data by province and by source?

A: Indeed we can.

Chapter 3 of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Understanding the Trends, 1990-2006 contains province-by-province data. This publication is issued by Environment Canada and can be down loaded at http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/inventory_report/2008_trends/trends_eng.cfm

Environment Canada also publishes the National Inventory Report: Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks in Canada, 1990-2006. It too contains provincial data . See http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/inventory_report/2006_report/tdm-toc_eng.cfm

The Energy Use Data Handbook, compiled by Natural Resources Canada, Office of Energy Efficiency does provide data on a sector-by-sector basis (down to the subsector level) for the residential, commercial, industrial, transportation and energy generation sectors. http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/publications/statistics/handbook07/index.cfm?attr=0

 The Canadian Industrial Energy End-use Data and Analysis Centre published An Inventory of Industrial Energy and Emissions Databases in Canada, 2007 for Natural Resources Canada And Other CIEEDAC Sponsors. It lists a number of data sources including publications by provincial and federal ministries and industrial associations, http://www.cieedac.sfu.ca/CIEEDACweb/pubarticles/Reports%20on%20Other%20Data/Inventory%202007.pdf

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