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ENERGY:

• Powers industry

• Creates jobs

• Provides comforts & convinces

• Fuels transportation

• It is imperative to Canada’s prosperity

Canadians consume more energy per capita than any other country in the world

Changes in energy production

• 1890 – Coal and wood provided almost all the country’s energy

• 1990 – Petroleum, natural gas, hydroelectricity, uranium

• 21st century – Solar, geothermal, wind, tides?

Power & Electricity

• Secondary energy resource: manufactured from primary energy resources, such as water, coal, uranium, oil, natural gas

• These are all natural resources abundant in Canada

• Water is considered renewable, but most of our energy comes from non-renewable resources.

Energy Map Assignment

• You will complete two maps

1) Canada – Primary Energy Industry• Fuel sources and mining operations

2) New Brunswick – Secondary Energy Industry• Locations of energy production• What kind of energy production

• Create a clear symbols for your legend

• Label Provinces

• Label city/town names that are sites of industry/energy production

On the map of New Brunswick…• Identify the location of the following means of power generation

(secondary energy resources) • Nuclear power generation

• Hydro-electric power generation

• Coal burning power plants

• Natural Gas burning power plants

• Petroleum burning power plants

• Wind farms

• Identify the location of the following industries (primary energy resource)• Uranium mining

• Coal mining

• Oil and Gas production

On the map of Canada…

Fossil Fuels

Nuclear

Renewable

Shale Gas in NB

In December of 2014 the Government of NB imposed a moratorium on all types of hydraulic fracturing until:

1) More research and information is made available

2) The risks to health, water and environment are fully understood

GASLAND - 2010 documentary film by Josh Fox

"one of the most effective and expressive environmental films of recent years… Gasland may become to the dangers of natural gas drilling what Silent Spring was to DDT.”

- Variety

"Gasland is the paragon of first person activist filmmaking done right… By grounding a massive environmental issue in its personal ramifications, Fox turns Gasland into a remarkably urgent diary of national concerns.“

- Indiewire