The European Union does not plan to crack down on planet-warming methane emissions from gas imports despite pressure from oil companies, activists and academics, according to its draft strategy and sources familiar with the matter.
FILE PHOTO: Gas drying towers are pictured at Gas Connect, Austria's gas distribution node in Baumgarten some 40 km east of Vienna March 6, 2013. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader/File Photo
The draft methane plan, which may be subject to change, says the European Commission will propose legislation requiring gas firms to better monitor and report methane emissions, but it does not include setting methane standards for imported gas.Campaigners say the omission of imported emissions risks undermining the EU’s climate policy as methane is 100 times more potent than CO2 when it first goes into the atmosphere.
Gas production is associated with emissions of methane, which leaches into the atmosphere from leaky pipelines and infrastructure at oil and gas fields. U.S. lobby groups EDF and the Rocky Mountain Institute, the Florence School of Regulation research centre and the European oil companies also wrote to the Commission in May, recommending “a methane intensity-based performance standard applied to the upstream segment of the supply chains from 2025”.
Campaigners fear this approach could delay plans to regulate imported emissions and say there is sufficient data to design such policies.
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