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Oil Industry Satellite for Measuring Climate Pollution Set to Launch


Oil Industry Satellite for Measuring Climate Pollution Set to Launch A $10 million dollar satellite will be launched next week to attempt to do something that has proved so elusive from the ground: comprehensively measuring the carbon dioxide and methane emissions billowing from Alberta's sprawling tar sands operations, and eventually fossil fuel operations anywhere. The satellite, built by the Montreal-based GHGSat, is funded by a group including major oil sands producers and the Canadian government and will blast off into space from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India on June 21. The hope is that, once in place 318 miles above Earth, the satellite will produce measurements with a resolution 400 times finer than current satellites produce.   More



(Source: InsideClimate News - Jun 18)

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