The Impact Of Emissions That Are Generated From Cradle To Gate

Case Background: - In transportation industry, one of the biggest challenge is how to deal with carbon dioxide emissions and how to reduce the energy. According to the Natural Resources Canada, one third of the greenhouse emission is because of transportation industry.

Method one is appropriate for QEH because the source of the emission is fuel combustion which is homogenous across the organisation. QEH is using liquid and solid fuel in their transport, which have homogenous source.  Emission by this method is easily estimated by referring to reportable data on fossil fuel consumption. The volume of consumed fuel in tones can be easily determined which are used in this method to calculate emitted carbon dioxide. Chemical properties of fossil fuels used in vehicles is uniform and can be easily determined using the tools provided in the method. If there are many types of emission sources available then methods 2,3 and 4 will give the perfect results in calculating the emissions. The range of emission sources covered in the determination includes the combustion of fuels for energy, fugitive emissions from the extraction of coal, oil and gas, industrial processes (such as producing cement and steel) and waste management

Carbon footprint is the total of greenhouse gases produced by an individual’s habits as well as the energy required to produce things an individual consumes.

The heavy usage of machinery and fossil fuels required in industrialization leads to high amounts of carbon emissions. The mass amount of raw materials used in each industry accumulates and

There are two main ways anthropogenic emissions. The first way they are released is through land use changes, this includes cities being urbanized and deforestation. Changing the land use typically has a positive correlation with an increased amount of carbon being. The second way is by fossil fuel emissions. This includes burning coal, using gas in automobiles, and using natural gas. Changing the land use and fossil fuel emissions continually add unwanted and harmful gases into the atmosphere which can in turn have a negative affect for the future of the human

Environmental Impact Assessment is very advanced process of forecasting influence on environment of planned operation, in this case- High Speed 2. It is crucial to do EIA before any construction works commence, it will allow designers to change or improve the project in order to minimise negative consequences of it.

Introduction In order to preserve Canada’s natural capital, it is imperative to improve Canada’s ecological footprint. A country’s ecological footprint consists of that country’s impact on their environment via their use of resources2. Canada has a small population which results in a much lower ecological footprint than countries with bigger populations¬6. Canada’s total ecological footprint is 224 global hectares (gha)6.

In 2012, transportation accounted for 19% of the total global energy consumption, 96% of which was produced by fossil fuels [1, p. 201]. Furthermore, air transport is the most carbon intensive mode of transportation, accounting for approximately 10 times more carbon emissions than road transport and 100 times more than shipping (per tonne km) [2, p. 4].

The EROEI means Energy Resource Over Energy Investment; it gives you the number you have multiply the input by to get the output, or the percentage of the input you get as an output. This is important because it allows quantifying of energy usage.

The total cost of fuel is $29793.35 and $117.76 per person. In terms of it’s environmental impact, the aircraft emits a total of 93875.92 kg, 371.05 kg per seat, of carbon dioxide as shown in in Table 3, page 5. The number of trees required to offset these emissions per year per person would be 16. The sedan consumes 8.38 L of fuel per hundred kilometer and if occupied by three passengers as stated in Table 1, each passenger consumes 2.793 L per hundred kilometer. The total cost of fuel consumption for the sedan would be $521.50, making it $173.83 per person. In terms of pollution, the sedan emits a total of 1159.97 kg of carbon dioxide. Thus meaning the emission per seat if three are occupied is 386.66. The number of trees required to offset these emissions per year per per person is 17. The van consumes a total of 18.19 liters per hundred kilometers and with eight occupants each person consumes 2.274 Liters per hundred kilometers. The total fuel cost for the trip would be $1131.99 making it $141.5 per passenger. In Table 3, it is calculated that the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the vans journey is 2517.87 kg and 314.7 kg per passenger. The amount of trees that would be required to offset these emissions would be 14 per year per

There are many by products produced in the oil sands process, many of these are air emissions containing nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, and volatile organic compounds. All of these have a detrimental effect on the ecological environment and the employees working around them. Suncor is utilizing complete Environmental Informational Management System (EIMS) implementation for air data for all assets, and investing in equipment and technology to achieve emission reductions. Suncor is continually generating air-related emissions data for reporting purposes, and continues to

A: Various construction companies are being called upon to reduce enviormental impact and this site can help to make that easier.

A few of these was include, methagenic material eliminating methane emissions and offsetting the reduction in landfill carbon sequestration, materials that require large energy input can be made from recycled inputs which require less energy and virgin materials, as well as the reduction of cardboard and paper products reduces the demand for fresh wood for harvest which increases forest carbon storage (Kelleher, Seidel, & Torrie, 2015). For certain materials, recycling, reducing, and reusing them have a positive effect on reducing the energy use of industries to manufacture them and GHGs. Some of these materials include aluminum and paper. The authors discuss how the overall GHG emissions that are embedded in a final product is still sensitive to the amount of energy used during the manufacturing process as well as the GHG intensity of the energy use and various fuels utilized during the manufacturing processes (Kelleher, Seidel, & Torrie, 2015). The authors also find that GHG associated with aluminum and paper is higher in the United States industry because of the lower GHG intensity of Canadian electricity (Kelleher, Seidel, & Torrie, 2015). This is the result of Canada utilizing more hydroelectricity and the United States depends more on coal for electricity (Kelleher, Seidel, & Torrie, 2015). Table 2 illustrates the impact of recycling due to forest carbon sequestration and energy savings on GHGs. In this table we see that aluminum, non-ferrous, and PET are the most recycled materials that have high energy savings and forest carbon sequestration. These materials are measured in tonnes and represented as CO2eq per tonne of recycled material. Moreover, the selected materials that have the least GHG impact on energy saving and forest carbon sequestration are glass, ferrous metals, steel, and

The transport sector is one of the main global consumers of fossil fuel related energy in the world. Unfortunately fossil fuel is non-renewable source of energy and the production of oil has been fluctuating in the recent past. At the same time, combustion of petroleum related fuel release greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide that destroy the ozone layer and result to further environmental degradation. Therefore to work

Truck transportation has been the backbone of freight movements in the United States and across the globe for decades. While utilizing trucks is an economical way to move freight for short hauls of less than a 1,000 miles, there are high environmental and infrastructure costs for utilizing this mode of transportation. According to Lowe, road transportation’s use of energy resources rose 103 per cent in the period since 1970 (2005). Additionally, Lowe points out that road transportation’s emission of green house gasses, “increased by 76% between 1971 and 1989” (Lowe, 2005, p. 112). Furthermore, road transportation is the largest polluter in the industry. It utilizes “over 80% of the total energy used in the transport sector and contributes over 75% of its total CO2 output (Lowe, 2005, p. 113). Finally, freight transportation by heavy vehicles causes pavement damage at significantly higher rates than passenger traffic (SSTI, 2011).