#Elxn44 BREAKING: Trudeau Campaign Announcement Means End of Oil and Gas Expansion – The Energy Mix:
Brouillette said the plan to reduce methane emissions
75% this decade is aligned with the path the Biden administration is
laying out in the United States. But she cautioned that Canada has dragged its feet on the 40 to 45% reduction by 2025 that Trudeau promised in 2016, following a summit with then-U.S. president Barack Obama and then-Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto.
To hit the 75% target, a post-election Trudeau government would also
have to get a handle on actual methane emissions from fossil fuel
operations, particularly in the fracking fields of northeastern British
Columbia, that are currently 1.6 to 2.2 times higher than federal estimates. And Ottawa would have to pay close attention to the new methane emissions fossils are tacitly endorsing
with their plans to produce “blue” hydrogen from natural gas—or, as
their critics contend, to use a shift toward hydrogen as a pretext to
extend the life of a faltering natural gas industry.
#Elxn44 BREAKING: Trudeau Campaign Announcement Means End of Oil and Gas Expansion – The Energy Mix: Brouillette said the plan to reduce methane emissions
75% this decade is aligned with the path the Biden administration is
laying out in the United States. But she cautioned that Canada has dragged its feet on the 40 to 45% reduction by 2025 that Trudeau promised in 2016, following a summit with then-U.S. president Barack Obama and then-Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto. To hit the 75% target, a post-election Trudeau government would also
have to get a handle on actual methane emissions from fossil fuel
operations, particularly in the fracking fields of northeastern British
Columbia, that are currently 1.6 to 2.2 times higher than federal estimates. And Ottawa would have to pay close attention to the new methane emissions fossils are tacitly endorsing
with their plans to produce “blue” hydrogen from natural gas—or, as
their critics contend, to use a shift toward hydrogen as a pretext to
extend the life of a faltering natural gas industry.Read More