Canada’s plans to sharply reduce the natural gas and oil industry’s methane emissions, considered the most potent greenhouse gas (GHG), were front and center at recent energy conferences in Calgary and New York City.

Canada’s Catherine Stewart, the country’s ambassador for Climate Change, predicted at the Climate Week conference in New York that draft regulations were only months away to enforce a government promise set to cut by 75% the industry’s methane leaks over 10 years.

“Reducing methane emissions is one of the lowest cost opportunities to make immediate and important progress on our climate goals,” Canadian Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said at the Climate Week conference. 

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