Kitimat

Prince Rupert

Prince George

Vancouver

Fort McMurray

Edmonton

Calgary

Regina Winnipeg

Thunder Bay

Victoria

Windsor

Sarnia

St. John’s

Toronto

QuebecCity

Montreal

Ottawa

Saint John

Charlottetown

Halifax

Kitimat

Prince Rupert

Prince George

Vancouver

Fort McMurray

Edmonton

Calgary

Regina Winnipeg

Thunder Bay

Victoria

Windsor

Sarnia

St. John’s

Toronto

QuebecCity

Montreal

Ottawa

Saint John

Charlottetown

Halifax

YT

37%Natural gas

2%Nuclear8%

Hydro power9%Coal

44%Crude oil

MB 32.2% Crude oil 67.8% Hydro/wind

No primary energy production

63.0% Natural gas 37.0% Hydro/wind

QC98.1% Hydro/wind

1.9% Nuclear

NOTE: Quebec closed its nuclear power plant in early 2013.

NT80.9% Crude oil 17.2% Natural gas 1.9% Hydro/wind

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 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 facilities. Combined, an energy road map emerges that shows just where our energy comes from and the routes it takes to help power our lives.

BC 7.0% Crude oil 59.7% Natural gas 9.5% Hydro/wind 23.8% Coal-fired power

AB 46.6% Crude oil 46.7% Natural gas 0.1% Hydro/wind 6.6% Coal-fired power

SK

63.9% Crude oil 19.4% Natural gas 0.8% Hydro/wind 15.9% Coal-fired power

ON 0.8% Crude oil 2.0% Natural gas 32.2% Hydro/wind 65.0% Nuclear

82.1% Crude oil 17.9% Hydro NL

PE

Prim

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Prim

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Ener

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NB

37.6% Natural gas 49.0% Hydro/wind13.4% Nuclear

Prim

ary Energy Production

NS 9.8% Crude oil 84.7% Natural gas 2.7% Hydro/wind 2.8% Coal-fired power

Prim

ary Energy Production

Prim

ary Energy Production

Primar

y Energy Production

Primar

y Energy Production

Primar

y Energy Production

Primar

y Energy Production

Primar

y Energy Production

Primar

y Energy Production

Primar

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Primar

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100% Wind

NU

PRIMARY ENERGY PRODUCTION BY TYPE

NATURAL MOVESThe to-and-fro flow of the nation’s natural gas

IMPORTEXPORT

207.7*millionm3/d

* enough to heat about 77,000 new, average-sized single detached Canadian homes for one year

NET

}272.1millionm3/d

millionm3/d64.4

1 m3 of natural gas = about enough to heat the average Canadian home for 3 hours

IMPORTEXPORT

CURRENT CONNECTIONSMoving electricity in and out of the country

}44.4 million MWh

25.7*million MWh

* enough to power 2.1 million average Canadian homes for a year

18.7 million MWh

NET

1 MW of electricity = enough to power approximately 667 toasters

OIL IN AND OUTCanadian crude oil imports and exports

1.7 millionbbl/d

916* thousandbbl/d

* equivalent to more than 145.6 million litres of gasoline

1 barrel of oil = about 159 litres of gasoline

784 thousandbbl/d

NET

}IMPORTEXPORT

Crude refined east

of Sarnia, Ont., is mainly imported

from Algeria, Nigeria, the

North Sea and Saudi Arabia.

Most crude refined

west of Sarnia, Ont., is

Canadian.

Ontario imports natural

gas from the U.S. at Courtright and Sarnia.

Liquefied natural gas is imported

through Canada’s only LNG terminal (Canaport)

in Saint John, N.B., to serve Atlantic Canada

and parts of the northeastern

U.S.Canada’s exported electricity

heads to the United States (from Manitoba, Ontario,

Quebec and New Brunswick) through an integrated

continental grid — most provincial grids connect to the U.S. rather than

to neighbouring provinces.

Quebec, which leads the

country in hydroelectric generation, exported 19.9 terawatt hours (1.6 years’

worth of electricity for 1 million average

Canadian homes) to New England and

New York in 2010.

About two-thirds

of Canada’s crude production is exported (almost exclusively to

the United States), mainly through a series of 11 major

pipelines.

As of early 2013,

there are seven proposed liquefied

natural gas facilities in B.C., with a combined

total capacity of about 255 million

cubic metres per day.

In 2012, an average of 61,000 barrels

of oil per day were exported to the U.S.

and Asia through Port Metro Vancouver.

The bulk of Canada’s natural

gas is exported to the United States through eight major pipelines,

most of which originate in Western and Central

Canada and lead south and east. ‡ Power plants with a generation capacity of less than 200 MW

are not shown

***Pipelines with a diameter of less than 220 mm are not shown

‡‡ Power lines with a capacity of less than 139 kV are not shown

Oil Production & Transmission

Gas Production & Transmission

Offshoreoil platform

Ethanolplant**

Oilrefinery/upgrader

Oil processingplant*

Offshorenatural gas

platform

NGLterminal

Oil pipelines

Proposed

*Plants processing less than 5.7 million cubic metres per day are not shown

**Ethanol plants with a capacity of less than 380 million litres per year are not shown

Diameter (mm)***

Proposed

Gas pipelines

Natural gas liquid Natural gas

Electricity Production & Transmission‡

Coal

Natural gasprocessing

plant*

Liquid natural gas processing

plant*

HydroNatural gasFuel oil

250 - 450

500 - 660

760 - 1200

Diameter (mm)***

250 - 450

500 - 660

760 - 1200

139 - 230231 - 345346 - 500501 - 765

Power lines (kV)‡‡Nuclear Wind

Proposed

POWER WAYS

ENERGY ENERGYCANADA’S

PRODUCTION ANDTRANSMISSION

POWERPOWER

WHERE Our Energy Comes From

And HOW It Gets From There To Us

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