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CANADA’S POWER WAYS

ENERGY
Canada is an energy-rich nation — the sixth largest producer of energy in the world, in fact.
It has the world’s third largest oil reserves and it’s the globe’s third largest producer of natural
gas and of hydroelectricity. Canada’s also a world leader when it comes to new and emerging
energy sources. But how many Canadians think about where the gasoline at their local station
or the electricity behind the switch comes from, or how it gets to them? To help answer those
questions, Canadian Geographic, in partnership with the Canadian Association

PRODUCTION AND of Petroleum Producers, created this map illustrating the nation’s
most significant energy-production sites, the major pipe- and
transmission lines and the country’s key energy processing M
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facilities. Combined, an energy road map emerges that P E
shows just where our energy comes from and the routes
it takes to help power our lives.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

WHERE Our Energy Comes From
44% 37%
Crude oil Natural gas
And HOW It Gets From There To Us

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refinery/ plant* oil platform plant**
upgrader
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As of
early 2013, Oil pipelines 250 - 450
Quebec,
there are seven 63.9% Crude oil which leads the Proposed 500 - 660
proposed liquefied Prince George 19.4% Natural gas country in hydroelectric 760 - 1200
natural gas facilities in 0.8% Hydro/wind generation, exported 19.9
B.C., with a combined terawatt hours (1.6 years’ uc
total capacity of 15.9% Coal-fired power worth of electricity for Prod tion 100% Wind Gas Production & Transmission
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SENIOR EDITOR: AARON KYLIE; PROJECT EDITOR: MICHELA ROSANO; ASSISTANT EDITOR: NICK WALKER; TRANSLATOR: MICHEL TANGUAY; FRENCH PROOFREADER: MARIE-CHRISTINE PICARD.
about 255 million 1 million average

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Canadian homes) to
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61,000 barrels 84.7% Natural gas Fuel oil Natural gas Hydro Coal
Regina 37.6% Natural gas
of oil per day were Winnipeg 2.7% Hydro/wind
49.0% Hydro/wind
exported to the U.S. 2.8% Coal-fired power
and Asia through 13.4% Nuclear
Nuclear Wind Power lines (kV)‡‡
Port Metro Montreal 139 - 230
Vancouver. About 231 - 345
two-thirds
of Canada’s crude Thunder Bay 346 - 500
The bulk of Ottawa Liquefied natural 501 - 765
production is exported Canada’s natural Crude
(almost exclusively to gas is imported
gas is exported to the through Canada’s only refined east
the United States), United States through of Sarnia, Ont., *Plants processing less than 5.7 million cubic metres per day
mainly through a LNG terminal (Canaport) are not shown
eight major pipelines, in Saint John, N.B., to is mainly imported
series of 11 major most of which originate from Algeria, **Ethanol plants with a capacity of less than 380 million litres
pipelines. serve Atlantic Canada per year are not shown
in Western and Central and parts of the Nigeria, the
Canada and lead northeastern North Sea and ***Pipelines with a diameter of less than 220 mm are not shown
south and east. Canada’s U.S. Saudi Arabia. ‡ Powerplants with a generation capacity of less than 200 MW
Toronto exported electricity are not shown

OIL IN AND OUT NATURAL MOVES CURRENT CONNECTIONS

‡‡Power
heads to the United States lines with a capacity of less than 139 kV are not shown
(from Manitoba, Ontario,
Quebec and New Brunswick)
Canadian crude oil imports and exports The to-and-fro flow of the nation’s natural gas Moving electricity in and out of the country Ontario through an integrated
imports natural continental grid — most

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NET gas from the U.S.

64.4
provincial grids connect
*million
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25.7
Sarnia

916
thousand
NET
* thousand million * million million at Courtright Most
crude refined to the U.S. rather than
IMPORT bbl/d bbl/d IMPORT m3/d m3/d IMPORT MWh MWh
and Sarnia.
west of Sarnia, to neighbouring

1.7
provinces.

272.1 44.4
Windsor Ont., is
EXPORT million * equivalent to more than EXPORT million * enough to heat about 77,000 new, EXPORT million * enough to power 2.1 million Canadian.
bbl/d 145.6 million litres of gasoline m3/d average-sized single detached MWh average Canadian homes for a year
Canadian homes for one year
1 barrel of oil = about 159 litres of gasoline 1 m3 of natural gas = about enough to heat 1 MW of electricity = enough to power approximately 667 toasters
the average Canadian home for 3 hours

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