[All] greenhouse gas emitters in Ontario

[Susan Koswan]

Can someone please go through my process here and see if I've arrived at 
the right conclusion.

A local organization called Open Data Exchange lists searchable 
government data reports on their website:

https://codx.ca/?fbclid=IwAR3PEO07HnLRx2NT5a5sBOdaTBMBxCJYeaIhw17kV87n1qjlNZQ6_Wf40gg

I decided to try and find out who are the worst emitters of GHGs in 
Waterloo Region from one of the reports they listed on the website:

https://www.ontario.ca/data/greenhouse-gas-emissions-reporting-facility

I clicked on 2016 All GHG activities and got this Excel spreadsheet, 
which I put in order of worst emitters. These are the top two and I am 
staggered by how much greater the GHGs from ADM are than the next highest.

ADM Agri-Industries Company 	ADM AGRI-INDUSTRIES - ADM Windsor 
40,781,868.00
Air Products Canada Ltd. 	Corunna Hydrogen Facility 	4,859,114.00

This is what ADM in Windsor does according to this website: 
https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=4160759

ADM Agri-Industries Company produces biodiesel from Canola oil in a 
biodiesel plant.

And then I wanted to find out how fuel is made from canola oil and found 
this  from the Canola Council 
https://www.canolacouncil.org/canola-biofuels/canola-biofuels/canola-the-perfect-candidate-for-biodiesel-and-renewable-diesel/ 
about how amazing it is:

  * Canola biodiesel helps reduce GHG lifecycle emissions by up to 90%
    compared to fossil diesel.^[4]

  * The CO_2 released by a vehicle when canola biodiesel is burned is
    offset by the CO_2 captured when the crop is grown.  This is
    different from diesel which is refined from petroleum extracted from
    the earth.

Is no one calling them up on the fact that the production of canola 
bio-diesel in Windsor is the biggest GHG emitter in the province???!!!!

Susan K





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