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May/June 2003 issue	In this issue Table of Contents Editor’s Notebook Inside Story Feature: Eco-audit À la carte Mosaic Reverberations

Power to burn

• Hours for Earth to receive the same energy from the sun as humans consume in a year: 1
• Percent of Canada’s energy production originating from fossil fuels: 83
• Percent of Canadian households heated mainly by natural gas or oil: 62.6
• Canada’s rank in world production of natural gas: third
• Barrels of crude oil produced each day in Canada: 2.22 million, or 6,300 oil tanker trucks
• Tonnes of coal produced in 2001: 70 million, or 1.6 million rail cars
• Percent of Canada’s primary energy use from renewable energy sources in 1998: 17
• Percent of Canadian households using wood as the primary source of heating: 4.4
• Length of time the energy produced from hydro power in Canada in 1998 would light one 40-watt bulb: 1 billion years
• Length of time the energy produced from wind power in Canada in 1998 would light one 40-watt bulb: 1 million years
• Length of time the energy produced from solar power in Canada in 1998 would light one 40-watt bulb: 170,000 years

Pipelines and pylons

• Length of pipeline in Canada: 580,000 kilometres
• Percent of Canada’s total energy supply transported by pipelines: 66
• Percent of Canadian-produced crude oil and natural gas transported by pipelines: 95
• Value of natural gas, oil and oil-related products delivered via pipeline in 2001: $65 billion
• Percent of Canada’s crude oil requirements imported then transported through pipelines: 33
• Velocity at which natural gas travels through pipelines: 20 kilometres per hour
• Total pipeline assets of Canadian Energy Pipeline Association member companies in 2001:
  $17 billion
• Property taxes paid by Canadian Energy Pipeline Association in 2001: $320 million
• Kilometres of electricity transmission lines in Canada: 160,000
• Percent contribution of the Canadian electric power industry to Canada’s gross domestic product in 1997: 2.9
• Percent of the world’s electricity production generated in Canada in 1997: 4.1
• Global ranking of Canada’s per capita electricity consumption in 1995: third

Scrap metamorphosis

• Energy saved by producing new steel from scrap versus raw material: one-third
• Energy saved by producing glass from recycled crushed glass versus raw material: one-third
• Energy saved by producing new plastic from recycled material versus raw material: one-third
• Fossil-fuel energy saved for each aluminum beverage can recycled: enough to run a television for 3 hours
• Carbon dioxide emissions spared for every tonne of aluminum diverted from a landfill by recycling: 2 tonnes
• Energy saved making recycled aluminum versus making aluminum from bauxite ore: 75 percent
• Total shipments of pulp and paper in Canada in 2001: 29.4 million tonnes
• Energy equivalent saved for every tonne of recycled paper: 1,440 litres of oil
• Reduction in air pollution when paper is made from waste rather than virgin fibre: 73 percent
• Reduction in water used when paper is made from waste rather than virgin fibre: 61 percent
• Tonnes of wood spared per tonne of paper made from recycled material: 3
  

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