Wasted Gas
B.C. gas sector has carbon emissions to burn
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Feel like you’re doing your part for climate change? Changed your light bulbs? Riding your bike? Like many British Columbians, you are probably pitching in to try to reduce our collective carbon footprint.Now if we could only get the natural-gas industry to stop dumping 1.8 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year due to gas flaring, we might be getting somewhere.
It is a little-known fact that the B.C. sector of this industry “flares”, or needlessly burns off, about
960 million cubic metres of natural gas every year. More
