Methane

German utility Uniper has locked down a formal long-term agreement to purchase liquefied natural gas from the $30-billion Ksi Lisims project planned for the northern British Columbia coast.

While efforts to weaken the EU’s methane regulation have intensified, with 12 EU governments requesting a three-year delay in implementation, Oslo-based Rystad Energy has issued several research-backed statements insisting there’s no risk to energy supplies with full implementation Jan. 1 as planned.

Some 345,000 kilometres of seismic lines generated by oil and gas activity scar Alberta’s boreal peatlands, and a new University of Waterloo study finds they're emitting up to three times more methane than the undisturbed land around them.

As the European Commission considers weakening the enforcement of its flagship methane regulation amid industry and geopolitical pressure, experts are urging policymakers to stay the course.

As LNG Canada’s export terminal in Kitimat edges toward a major expansion amid mounting opposition, a veteran Texas air quality expert toldThe Energy Mix that the British Columbia regulator is giving the facility what he calls a “free pass” on emissions.

Vancouver City Council is set to vote Wednesday—or possibly later this week—on a new, expanded resolution to rescind the community’s restrictions on natural gas heating.

The controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) on fossil fuel development between the federal and Alberta governments has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis, with the fossil companies it was meant to serve fighting hard to blow it up, while climate hawks who broadly opposed it try to preserve key elements of the...

Tried-and-tested methane reduction methods could free up enough wasted natural gas to make up for twice the amount affected by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, yet Canada’s performance on methane reductions could be threatened by new regulations in Alberta that are less stringent than federal rules, according to...

A regulatory order over black smoke spewing from LNG Canada's Kitimat facility is the latest development in a months-long pattern of excessive flaring that has left residents and health experts alarmed—and largely in the dark.

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom’s ruling in Finch vs. Surrey County Council shuttered a small fracking operation in southeastern England. But the judgement also turned back three major UK fossil fuel development projects and led the UK government to issue new guidance for the permitting of offshore natural...

Alberta is proposing rule changes that would see Premier Danielle Smith's government become more involved in kickstarting potential big-ticket industrial projects.

Non-producing oil and gas wells emit two types of methane: thermogenic and microbial. Using a newly-designed method for distinguishing between the two, a McGill University team found microbial methane is being emitted at rates 1,000 times higher than previously estimated. The finding points to “well integrity failure” as a primary...

The Earth has reached a record “energy imbalance”, with the atmosphere taking on far more heat than it can release and ocean warming reaching new heights, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned last week, in a State of the Global Climate report that showed greenhouse gas emissions continuing to rise...

Just hours after signing an agreement in principle with Ottawa that already trades away the equivalent of 53 million tonnes of climate pollution, the Alberta government has released new methane control regulations that undercut the new plan, an analyst says.

The federal and Alberta governments have reached a preliminary agreement that will allow the province to set its own regulations on climate-busting methane emissions and postpone its emission reduction deadline by five years.