CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific Kansas City this week launched an updated carbon emissions calculator for its combined rail network in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.
This web-based tool is designed to give customers greater insight into the carbon footprint of CPKC’s transportation services by allowing users to estimate the potential greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions they may achieve using CPKC’s rail services compared to long-haul trucking alternatives, the railroad says.
“This calculator supports our customers across North America in making informed decisions on freight transportation options consistent with their own climate-related strategies and that benefit the environment,” CPKC CEO Keith Creel said in a statement. “CPKC believes meaningful climate action includes collaboration, partnerships and engagement with our customers and other stakeholders. Updating our carbon calculator to cover our full combined network allows our customers to be engaged in CPKC’s sustainability journey from the start.”
Expanding on the individual former Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern carbon emissions calculators, the updated version of the tool incorporates customer-specific shipping details to calculate routes across CPKC’s rail network and commodity-specific GHG emissions. The calculator also provides information on highway safety and other public benefits of shipping with CPKC’s freight rail services.
The carbon emissions calculator is available through CPKC’s website.
I was at church last night, me being a very small part of a very big budget discussion. On the way out, I got to talking to an architect who like me serves on Buldings and Grounds. The architect is furious that the builder put in electric heating (not natural gas) over the main entranceway to the church. Stating that electric space heat is very inefficient compared to natural gas. Which I know as well as he does.
In perspective, that’s one of three entranceways to one of the five buildings the parish/ parish school owns and uses — in other words a very small fraction of one percent of our overall heating load. So imagine what this architect will say when the entire states of New York and California switch from natural gas to electric for space heating.
The enviros are nuts. They are dangerous.
They are nuts, dangerous, and in charge, part of the great American experiment’s decline into disaster, like so many empires in the past. Sic transit gloria mundi.
I’m far from convinced electric heating is going to be the answer in our northern climate Charles.
Forced air natural gas creating a heat curtain at the exterior doors would have been so much more efficient for the entire building.
If CPKC really cared about the environment, they would rescind their merger so that no shipper could be mistakenly lured into shipping with them anywhere between the Upper Midwest and Mexican border instead of with UP or BNSF. With a route so much longer, steeper and slower than their competition, shipping via CPKC harms the environment as well as damages the economy by consuming more operational resources (track, equipment, fuel, locomotives). That’s why the CP-KCS merger was a mistake: The STB should not encourage traffic to move to more inefficient routes.
I’m also concerned, Mark, about the route from Michigan and Eastern Canada. to KCMO, Texas and Mexico. How is it that I seem to be the only person on this forum that points out this absurdity. From West Detroit to KCMO, the railroad goes in cricles.
This is where I feel the agreement between CN and UP may put a bit of a damper on the CPKC thoughts of superior service.
BBQing a nice big t bone steak for me and the mrs tonight, one less farting cow to worry about!
So what does this accomplish, other than pandering to our woke crowd and our Marxist government. (Or the other Marxist government to our north.)
I looked up a flight on United Airlines (Which probably isn’t the only airline that does this.) The website gives the carbon emissions for the flight, or for my own seat, whichever. What do I do with the information? Either I fly or I stay home. Unlike today’s sheepish woke-following sheep, I’m old and wise enough to know there’s an impact to what I consume — whether a hot shower or an airplane flight or driving my car or ordering a package on Amazon. I already knew that jet engines (and crew positioning, and airport operations) have an environmental impact.
Here’s the definition of today’s environmentalist sheep: they want to consume limitless products and services like no generation before them ever could, but they want someone else to lessen the environmental impact of their lifestyle.
Let me know if you meet someone willing to spend a few hundred dollars more per seat to get their CO2 consumption down.
Better yet, see an airline offer a seat for a few hundred dollars more so they can go buy some carbon offsets on your behalf.
Oh yeah, thats right, thats for the other guy to pay for….not me.
Great PR gimmick, little else.
Whether it means a damn thing or not in the cosmic scheme of things, a smart business move for those who think it does, or are compelled to think so.