Natural gas is somewhere between equally as bad and worse for climate change compared to coal. It’s just harder to measure since most of the impact comes from leaking methane into the atmosphere, which most energy companies don’t have to monitor or measure. We shouldn’t be investing in it.
This ‘plan’ is very Orwellian. The idea that other countries are going to replace local coal usage with Canadian natural gas usage rather than simply adding more capacity is already laughable. Pretending that, even if that did happen, Canada would be given partial credit is just not being honest. Canada exports natural gas right now. Are we getting any sort of credit for that?
I don’t know about “credit” but Canada does get lots of international recognition for its fossil fuels exports. If we replace the carbon tax with new carbon subsidies I imagine we can garner even more such attention pretty quickly.
