My graph goes back a lot farther than that to 2004. What I see is more than a 10% increase in emissions intensity per barrel of crude from the oil sands. Now, here I have a comparison of the emissions intensity per barrel, kilograms CO2 per barrel, of various types of oil and gas.
Like I said, I'm focusing on the oil sands here. The oil sands have an average emissions intensity of about 174 kilograms CO2, whereas U.S. Bakken with no flare is around 24 kilograms CO2. In Mexico, Cantarell is around 40. Even U.S. Alaska North Slope is just over 100. It's 174 kilograms of CO2 per barrel of oil. Like I said, that's been going up over the last 20 years or so. There are 174 kilograms of CO2 emissions per barrel. That's, again, emissions intensity per barrel in the oil sands.
This is just extraction and processing emissions before it's even used. When people, particularly.... I've heard it a couple of times today, but Conservative politicians regularly say that Canada needs more oil and gas. Do you know what? I tend to agree. If we can produce it more ethically and with a lower carbon intensity, then certainly. Have we demonstrated an ability to reduce the carbon emissions per barrel of bitumen extraction in the oil sands?
Everything that I'm reading here indicates that it's upwards of seven times more oil-intensive than oil elsewhere. Where's the rationale for Canadian oil sands being way less carbon-intensive? It seems like it's the opposite of what's true.