Growing the National Carbon Footprint - Carbon Dioxide

T&T presently produces approx 33 million t/yr of CO2 from fossil fuel.

Essar Steel’s approved plant would produce an additional 900 000 t/yr of CO2 initially, rising to 1 870 000 t/yr.

Adding 760 000 t/yr of CO2 production from a 240 MW captive power plant for Essar; gives us a total of 2 630 000 t/yr of CO2 .

If Essar pursues its declared interest in putting up a second mill similar to the first, its CO2 emissions would double to 5 260 000 t/yr.

The 720 MW power plant proposed for La Brea would generate 2 300 000 t/yr of CO2 . In addition, Alutrint would release greenhouse gases from the smelter rooms at a rate of up to 2 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per tonne of aluminium produced, i.e. 250 000 t/yr of CO2 equivalent.
ALCOA would cause release of as much as 2 760 000 t/yr of CO2 equivalent from smelter rooms and electricity generation.

Total additional CO2 from the proposed plants, excluding the future extensions, is estimated as an additional ‘cool’ 25%. This is global warming T&T Vision 2020 style.