The BC government's newly released natural gas strategy will increase greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, not reduce them, as claimed in British Columbia's Natural Gas Strategy, released on Friday February 3rd 2012.

"Methane leaks from the extraction of natural gas are a huge driver of climate change,” said Guy Dauncey, Executive Director of the BC Sustainable Energy Association, “and the evidence appears to show that the extraction of shale gas produces up to twice as many fugitive methane emissions as conventional gas. It is essential that ways be found to control and capture these emissions.”