Canadian Firm Launches Satellite to Monitor C02 Emissions from Coal Plants
Last week, an emissions monitoring company in Canada launched a satellite from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in the United States. The company, GHGSat, launched the Vanguard satellite to detect CO2 emissions from facilities such as steel mills and coal plants from space. GHGSat focuses on key markets such as oil and gas, waste management, power generation, coal mining, agriculture and financial services. In a statement, the company explained that satellites currently in the atmosphere that monitor carbon dioxide did not focus on emissions at the facility level. The company’s move to launch another satellite to monitor facility emissions comes…