{"id":1753,"date":"2021-12-17T13:28:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T18:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eerl\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2021-12-17T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T18:31:43","slug":"measuring-methane-emissions-one-of-the-keys-to-combatting-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eerl\/2021\/measuring-methane-emissions-one-of-the-keys-to-combatting-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Methane Emissions One of the Keys to Combatting Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Measuring Methane Emissions One of the Keys to Combatting Climate Change<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Dan Rubinstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>December 14, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>At the United Nations COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/02\/climate\/biden-methane-climate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crack down on emissions of methane<\/a>, a potent greenhouse gas with an impact on global warming several dozen times stronger than that of carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is one of more than 100 countries to sign the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/news\/2021\/10\/canada-confirms-its-support-for-the-global-methane-pledge-and-announces-ambitious-domestic-actions-to-slash-methane-emissions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Methane Pledge<\/a>, which aims to reduce worldwide methane emissions by 30\u00a0per cent below 2020 levels and to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by at least 75\u00a0per cent below 2012 levels by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>But before industry can cut emissions at wells, compressor stations, storage tanks or the 40 or so different types of major infrastructure, and before governments can impose more strict regulations, they need to better understand where\u2014and how much\u2014methane is being released.<\/p>\n<p>Carleton\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering<\/a>\u00a0Prof.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/profile\/matthew-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Johnson<\/a>, director of the university\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eerl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Energy and Emissions Research Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0(EERL), is in the midst of a multi-year project using airborne and ground-based technologies to measure methane at more than 8,000 active energy production sites from Manitoba to British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to create the first measurement-based methane inventory in Canada,\u201d says Johnson, whose approximately $2.5 million project is supported by 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