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VANCOUVER – taken at oil and gas sites in Alberta and Saskatchewan reveal that methane is being intentionally and unintentionally emitted from Canada’s oil and gas-producing regions.
Political and business leaders announced plans to cut pollution and protect forests at a climate summit in Glasgow last year but have taken little concrete action to honor those promises.
The oil and gas industry is choking the atmosphere with a heat-trapping gas stronger than CO2 — despite cheap, fast and easy fixes.
One of the most dangerous greenhouse gases is leaking into the atmosphere relentlessly from the EU’s easternmost edge. Invisible plumes of methane escape from Romania’s oil fields, gas pipes, rusting storage containers and even a well next to a playground. The job of finding the leaking gas, with more than 80 times more warming power than carbon dioxide in the short term, falls to James Turitto from the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. He has found more than 70 leaks using a special infrared camera capable of detecting the odorless gas. “It felt like every well in Romania is leaking,” s...