The province’s own research has found flaws in how natural gas was detected and measured.
Zoë Yunker is a Vancouver-based journalist writing about energy and environment politics. She works with The Tyee as a Tula Foundation Immersive Journalism fellow. SHARES Premier John Horgan in Kitimat announcing LNG Canada’s $40 billion investment in 2018. At the time, BC said fracked gas fit its climate action goals, but a new study doubles emissions estimates.
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Methane emissions from natural gas fracking in B.C. are about double what the government has assumed, according to a recent study initiated by the province and the BC Oil and Gas Commission.
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Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that s leaking from oil and gas operations, but research suggests official estimates fail to capture just how much. Here, a plane with new laser technology to measure methane emissions flies over a storage tank at an oil and gas site in B.C., trying to get more accurate data.(Submitted by Matthew Johnson)
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