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Alberta - Alberta hits methane reduction target three years early

Global Renewable News

Alberta has now reduced methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 45 per cent since 2014.Alberta Alberta was the first province in Canada to set a methane emissions target for t.

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Growing Body of Research Suggests Offshore Oil’s Methane Pollution Is Underestimated

DeSmogBlog

Flying 10,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, in a plane outfitted with infrared imaging equipment, researchers could see methane gas bubbling under water, likely from an undetected pipeline leak. Still, researchers emphasize that the high rate of methane leakage underscores the major climate impact that reducing those leaks could have.

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Pipe upgrade project set to slash methane footprint of Britain's gas network

Business Green

The current iron pipes carry methane-based natural gas. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with global warming potential that is 21 times greater than that of CO2.

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Bristol's buses aims to beat emissions with new bio-methane filling station

Business Green

The new facility is the second bio-methane filling station to be opened by operator First West of England in the space of a year. Bristol will take a significant step towards tackling its transport emissions next weekend when bus operator First West of England opens a new bio-methane gas filling station at its Lawrence Hill depot.

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Support for small-scale biogas solutions picks up international award

Envirotec Magazine

Kathy has been a dedicated biogas user since installing a home scale biodigester in 2014. Her family harvests the vegetables grown with the help of the liquid fertiliser, and they cook most of their stove-top meals with the methane produced. Kathy is really making a difference and making biogas happen!”

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Why Flexible Gas Generation Must Be Part of Deep Decarbonization

GreenTechMedia

For example, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and SoCalGas launched a new bioreactor in 2019 that turns renewable power into renewable methane. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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The answer to climate-killing cow farts may come from the sea

Grist

One day in January 2014, police rushed to a farm in Rasdorf, Germany, after flames burst from a barn. They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8

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