I agree that we should have larger financial incentives/pressure on these companies, but I don't know how good of a solution it is to tax at the emitter like this considering how hard it is to track those leaks still.
The size of the images taken from GHGSAT's satellites could never cover a whole region reliably and they still require a lot of processing to allow for the detection of smaller leaks. I think that would create a situation where companies would underreport those leaks and the government wouldn't have a reliable way to check if they did.
I think it'd be much more efficient to tax consumers in general for the oil they purchase and "let the free market do its thing". The transition or rather, letting the polluters pay their fair share, needs to happen much quicker than what we're seeing today and half-assed measures aren't getting us there anytime soon.
The size of the images taken from GHGSAT's satellites could never cover a whole region reliably and they still require a lot of processing to allow for the detection of smaller leaks. I think that would create a situation where companies would underreport those leaks and the government wouldn't have a reliable way to check if they did.
I think it'd be much more efficient to tax consumers in general for the oil they purchase and "let the free market do its thing". The transition or rather, letting the polluters pay their fair share, needs to happen much quicker than what we're seeing today and half-assed measures aren't getting us there anytime soon.