So back to the electric use. There is more use for electrical power now due to population increase, more houses, more office buildings, more electric cars, etc. Batteries are less efficient when it is cold. There is a cold snap in Alberta.
Heating a house can be by oil, natural gas or electric. With conservation in mind most would choose natural gas, but there is need of infrastructure, so the easiest is electrical heat.
When its cold outside people turn the heat up.
The problem with houses and buildings are their design. Most building built today only use a single door for access (convience of access). A well designed house has an airlock/air barrier to keep the heat in (enclosed porch,an mudroom.
If you are off grid, you have your own well (drinking water) and a generator for electric power (gas run), nowadays people can choose solar or wind (renewable energy).
People also look toward dual types of power, or heat in case one fails. ie wood fire place or natural gas/oil for heating, and solar/wind with a line to the electric company. Ideally if you have a renewable system you can sell back to the electric company.
But the electric company doesn't want to buy that power...
As for the pipelines they will go through.
As for Climate change/gobal warming/Climate Crisis or whatever you want to call it, the whole world's economy runs off of the black gold. The more the world (that race called man) uses it, the more harm it does to the environment which will effect our health. The atmosphere is a large volume of air, for now most people can breath fine (but asthma is on the rise etc). Now go park your car in a garage and close the door and run the car, most people would call this suicide..... Eventually the car takes the oxygen in the garage and make CO2, which causes death in humans....because there is a lack of oxygen (all burnt away when the fuel burns).
Now enlarge the picture by a zillion, the human race is slowly choking on its own inventions....
Ever seen pictures of large cities surrounded and encased in smog. Look at Los Angeles, it used to be that way, the state government brought in emission controls, which limited cars performance (and also the owners satisfaction).Even today LA still gets smog. Look a the Lower Mainland in BC, when its hot and muggy and no air flow the whole lower mainland turns into a gas chamber (its called air quality). The smog from burning fossil fuels is bad and no one escapes it. Imagine that every day, choking on your own air just to survive, because you and all your kin wanted V8s with all that power.....You heated your house with oil etc, You bought stuff from a factory that used coal to generate the power.
The end result is the human race has to get off the hydrocarbons and on to renewable energy in order to just breathe clean air.
The culprit is the greedy man, who wants to make a profit and get rich; after all what do rich men do when they rape the land, they just move to another part and continue on in their environment destroying ways. Unfortuneately like the global enconomy (where everything is affecting everything else), the earth is a sphere and there are limited resources (like clean air), the rich man can not move anywhere on the face of the earth to find clean air....
The fact is everyone knows this and just stick their heads in the sand like an ostrich..... And its so much better to go into the wilderness and tear it up in a nice big 4 X 4 with its gas guzzling V8.
Recently watched a series on car upgrades on Prime called supercars, to get more horsepower the mechanics were taking off exhuast system and burning more fuel and air in the ICE. Yup the whole automobile industry is a big factor too....