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Canada is a world leader when it comes to renewable energy investment and production. It’s not something that you hear about often in Canada, but it’s an important message to get out to the national and international communities.

Check out these 12 quick facts about Canada and renewable energy:

As the second largest country in the world, Canada is fortunate to have an incredible diversity and wealth of natural resources which play an important part in its high standard of living and national economy.

For example, Canada’s mining, forestry and energy industries are responsible for creating both direct and indirect economic benefits such as capital investments and job creation across the country...

Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) have been a topic of hot debate in Canada as of late, especially when it comes to new pipelines and carbon taxes.

To shed some light on energy use and GHG emissions in Canada, we delved into recent articles released on The Daily at Statistics Canada and found some interesting data for 2016.

Reduced GHG emissions were made across all industries except for one, while all but two managed to reduce their total national energy consumption.

Here’s some of the key points taken from the report Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by industries and households, released September 7th, 2018:

Have you heard about the multi-billion-dollar LNG project proposed in British Columbia? With a $40-billion price tag, the project is set to become the single largest investment into infrastructure in the province’s history!

There would be massive economic benefits for both the private sector and government, with thousands of jobs being created – peaking at 10,000 workers in 2021. Let’s not forget that oil and natural gas from Canada is produced to the highest environmental and human rights standards in the world!

We could discuss the environmental and economic benefits for British Columbia, Canada and the world when it comes to a new LNG project off the west coast. But to keep things much short-winded, here’s three practical reasons why Canada needs BC LNG:

As pipeline woes continue in Canada, I decided to look online and see if other nations were dealing with the same problems related to getting pipelines built. What I discovered was a wealth of information discussing the economic benefits of new pipelines in the planning stages or under construction in countries of all continents around the world.

These nations, of which have access to a wealth of raw oil and natural gas, seem to have taken note that global demand for petroleum is rising – and will for many years to come – and that selling their natural resources to meet that demand was a good idea anyhow.

I was surprised to see many of these projects were already underway or projected to be completed soon. I mean, the turmoil that Canada has experienced with getting any pipeline built seems everlasting - and quite frankly is extremely frustrating for many like myself.

Just thought I’d share with you some facts on these five major pipelines under construction around the world while asking a very important question… where are the protestors, like we have in Canada?

I remember growing up in Calgary in the early 90s when happy meals were five bucks and gasoline was just above 40 cents per litre. Back then I was a young child and my parents paid for it all anyways… ah, the good ol’ days when maintaining a job wasn’t even a fathomable thought.

I remember when my pops decided to get a new SUV and trade in his station wagon. The bill at the gas station pump almost doubled. How could my parents even afford this!? It seemed like so much money at the time. Oh, that’s right… my parents were both engineers and had good jobs. Growing up and advancing through the grades I began to learn about different career paths and admired my parents for what they were. They inspired me to follow the same road, so I did!

I also remember when the appeal of becoming an engineer in a province home to the world’s third largest recoverable oil reserves was too good an opportunity to overlook. The job market in the oil and gas industry was booming. Unlike my distant memories of cheap gas, happy meals and inspirational parents, this was during much more recent times.

Luckily for me, I graduated from the University of Calgary and got off to a good start a few years before the economy crashed in 2014 and have been able to maintain my job ever since. Other aspiring engineering students, fresh graduates and even industry professionals I know haven’t been so lucky as of late.

How can you support Canadian energy and the opportunities that mega-projects like the Trans Mountain expansion, Keystone XL pipeline and BC LNG would bring to our nation?

Truth is that we as Canadians needs to stand up for our prosperity! We cannot let loud vocal minorities dominate the conversation with mis-information concerning our energy sector any longer!

Every voice counts in this battle for Canada’s economic future. Here are a few simple ways you can get involved in the conversation and do your part:

With lengthy delays and so much uncertainty when it comes to getting pipelines built in Canada, it seems Canadian producers have found another way to get their oil to market.

According to Statistics Canada, there was a total of 16,193 railway carloads transporting petroleum and fuel oil in June of 2018. That’s about eight times the amount seen a decade ago and a fresh record high.

Furthermore, because of limited pipeline capacity the biggest increase in weight moved by rail for the second consecutive month was for crude petroleum and fuel oils – up by 45.8% (464,000 tonnes) year-over-year.

Crude-by-rail exports also rose by 31.4% since January 1st while in June of 2018 they rose by a whopping 86.8% when compared with the same time frames the year before. This is largely due to the modest recovery oil prices have made in recent months, as producers scramble to take advantage of the potential boost in revenues.

So what does this all mean for Canada?

Over the weekend Abacus Data undertook to a poll of Canadians to measure support for the Trans Mountain expansion. The results were a resounding 7/10 people supporting the project, including 67% of people in British Columbia. A significant majority.