This scenario uses historical facts placed upon today’s energy infrastructure.
REFINED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
FY2000FY2026
FY2024
scrub the year
Four provinces, one basin — the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, whose crude leaves by pipe south and east, by rail when the pipes fill, and by tanker from Burrard Inlet.
Wind farm; row length ∝ capacity, not machine count
Provincial generation, TWh
Gas field; area ∝ output
Transmission pipeline
Trading hub
Underground storage
Terminal or delivery point
Gas demand: outer industry, inner homes and shops
Gas-fired power station, 250 MW and up
Converted from coal
Basin or shale play
Panel array = a solar farm; the array grows with the farm’s capacity in MW.
Dashed grey outline = a farm not built yet, with the year it is expected; no panels are drawn.
Province circle = megawatts of solar drawn in that province in the scrubbed year.
One stack per generating unit at the plant.
Filled ember = a unit still burning coal; hollow ring = a unit that has stopped.
Crossed and grey = the whole plant has shut.
Province circle = megawatts still on coal in that province in the scrubbed year.
Headframe = a uranium mine that is producing, with its output in millions of pounds of U3O8.
The same headframe in muted brown = a mine on care and maintenance, not producing.
Block with a trefoil = a mill, where ore becomes uranium concentrate; the mound beside it is tailings.
Dashed ring = a reactor proposed but not built; the label carries the earliest year.
In the fuel cycle below the map, a lit stage happens in this region and a dark one does not; the place under each stage is where it happens instead.
Blue trapezoid = crude field (Athabasca, Cold Lake, Peace River, Lloydminster, the two Saskatchewan grades, Virden–Williston); area ∝ output.
Refinery (distillation towers). Western Canada has nine; the four at Edmonton draw as one cluster because they span four pixels of this canvas.
Terminal — the triangle holds, the arrows move it on. Edmonton trades and ships, Fort Saskatchewan takes the condensate, Hardisty blends heavy to spec before it leaves.
Blue line = crude moving; the grains show which way, and the pill on the ribbon carries the volume against the capacity it is filling.
Export tanker at Westridge — hover it for where the crude actually went, by PADD, for the year on the scrubber.