When the Price is Right: How B.C.’s carbon tax could cost-effectively reduce methane pollution in the oil and gas industry

Published by: David Suzuki Foundation
Authored by: Thomas Green, Levi Marks
ISBN: ISBN 978-1-988424-36-1

Climate solutions climate change, methane pollution, decarbonization, carbon pricing, carbon tax

British Columbia’s carbon tax works, but it is not yet being applied to harmful methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, the province’s largest industrial polluter. This report models two approaches to applying B.C.’s carbon tax to methane emissions from oil and gas that can be achieved more cost-effectively than in other sectors of the economy and without imposing a competitive disadvantage on the industry. Following the report’s six recommendations would allow the B.C. government to demonstrate climate leadership.