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Originally Posted by jigglysquishy
The issue isn't farmers. It's people in White City or Warman who put on 30k km a year. Or the people in suburban Regina/Saskatoon who drive everywhere. Or the non ag workers in small town Saskatchewan who continue to aggressively support coal.
Realistically, commuters and coal power plants are far and away our biggest problem polluters. We should have fazed coal out in the 60s.
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I would put commuters far below coal. Transport and electricity generation emit similar amounts of CO2 in Sask, but transport includes business vehicles, long haul trucks, aircraft, public transport, trains, etc.