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Methane is the greenhouse gas that’s turbocharging global heating and climate disasters. Methane is a super-pollutant over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide and has caused almost half of global temperature rise since the industrial revolution.

Coal & gas mining is more polluting than any other sector because of its huge carbon and methane emissions. While ordinary Australians face the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and communities are hit with worsening floods, fires and droughts, wealthy coal & gas companies are knowingly polluting potent methane and putting communities at risk. 

The good news is there’s lots of ways to cut methane pollution without putting pressure on communities. Coal & gas corporations have the technology to measure and reduce methane pollution today and solutions cost only a fraction of mining corporation profits. Our governments need to hold corporations like Whitehaven, Glencore and Santos to account on their methane pollution by requiring accurate methane measurement and charting a methane reduction pathway.

We have the solutions that can get Australia’s coal & gas mining to Methane Zero. The next step is action.

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Reducing methane is recognised as the most cost effective and fastest strategy to reduce climate pollution this decade and keep warming below the critical 1.5°C.  Australia’s methane pollution is a significant proportion...
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Open Methane reveals 20 methane hotspots are all coal and gas mining

October 09, 2024

Coal and gas mining areas have been revealed as Australia’s 20 biggest methane hotspots. The Superpower Institute's Open Methane launch report indicates that coal and gas mining, rather than agriculture, are Australia's biggest methane polluters.  World-leading scientists from the Superpower Institute have built a...

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