Alberta to expand airborne monitoring of oilsands greenhouse gas emissions
EDMONTON, AB. — Alberta has begun monitoring oilsands emissions from the sky.
The province’s environmental monitoring agency is using airborne sensing equipment to measure the release of greenhouse gases and other chemicals from oilsands mines north of Fort McMurray —a program being expanded to cover all of Alberta’s heavy oil and bitumen production.
“We’re trying to get a better inventory of what’s coming off of where,” Fred Wrona, the province’s chief scientist, told The Canadian Press.
Airborne monitoring recently revealed that greenhouse gas emissions from some parts of the oilpatch have been badly underestimated.