Electricity generation, transmission and distribution was the top source of greenhouse gas emissions in Nova Scotia in 2022, according to Statistics Canada’s latest annual accounting of emissions from economic activity.
That industry accounted for 40.5 per cent of emissions in the province.
That’s not surprising to Badia Nehme, an energy co-ordinator with the Ecology Action Centre.
“A majority of our grid is fossil fuels,” Nehme said, adding that about a third of power generation comes from coal.
That “happens to be one of the most emitting forms of fossil fuel energy generation you can get,” Nehme said.
