Canada set to badly miss 2020 target for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases

Canada failed to regulate the booming oil and gas sector, Parliament's environmental watchdog said today

Lake Louise at Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains outside the village of Lake Louise, Alberta. Reuters/Mark Blinch

David Ljunggren

Canada is set to badly miss its 2020 target for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, in part because of its failure to regulate the booming oil and gas sector, Parliament's environmental watchdog said today.