Dive Brief: The utility will pay a premium to Crestone Peak Resources, which minimizes methane leakage in the production and transport of natural gas by continuously monitoring activity through Project Canary’s technology. The results, which will be tracked starting this spring through early 2022, will be third-party certified by the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. Some clean energy advocates say the industry should already be continuously monitoring for methane leaks. The natural gas industry is "doing everything in their power" to delay a phase down in gas plant buildouts due to climate action, said Bruce Niles, executive director of climate imperative at Energy Innovation, calling "responsibly sourced gas" the new "clean coal."