Feds shouldn’t let Alberta undercut efforts to lower methane emissions

It's up to the federal government to declare that Alberta's proposed methane emissions rules don't measure up to new federal standards, writes Dale Marshall. The question is, will it take that stand?

Some of Alberta's oil and gas production facilities—one of which is pictured here in 2008—release a significant amount of methane into the atmosphere, and Environmental Defence says Alberta's new methane emission standards may not do much to change that. The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY Dale Marshall

August 20, 2018

All eyes are on Saskatchewan and Ontario’s plan to oppose the federal government’s coming price on carbon emissions all across Canada. But there’s another federal-provincial dispute over climate action that may surface soon: how methane emissions from the oil and gas sector are managed. Reduc...

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