Sentences with phrase «capture fugitive emissions»
Emissions are falling as industry develops technologies and methods to capture fugitive emissions — which can be used to power field equipment or that can be marketed.
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«There are ways to capture those fugitive emissions and I quite agree that we should,» he told the Tyee.
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The Environmental Protection Agency issued its latest report on the Methane to Markets program intended to encourage industries to capture «fugitive» emissions of the one heat - trapping greenhouse gas that is a valuable fuel, methane.
Fugitive emissions like methane challenge pollution control experts, because they do not come from a more easily controllable «point source», like a smokestack or process pipe, which could be fitted with technology to capture or clean up the gas.
«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»
Expanding the carbon tax to include all greenhouse gas emissions generated in B.C., or capturing these «fugitive» industrial emissions as part of a future cap and trade system.
The EPA tracks fugitive and vented methane emissions through a program called Natural Gas STAR and then works to get drilling companies to save money by stanching their leaks and selling the gas they capture for profit.