How harnessing methane from landfills could help Canada fight climate change

As the black SUV crawls slowly along a gravel road, in the passenger seat Nadia Tarakki taps her finger on the screen of her laptop. 

“This is what a plume looks like,” she says, her eyes fixed on a flat blue line that’s suddenly shot upward. 

Out the car’s window is a field of brown winter grass dotted with short concrete pillars. It doesn’t look like anything around the pillars is moving, but Tarakki knows better.

“That one was leaking a little bit,” she says to her fellow researcher, Amirali Foomajd, who’s at the wheel. “We’ll keep an eye on that one.”

The grassy field where Tarakki