Is Canada seeking too much credit for its natural gas as a climate-change cure?

Open this photo in gallery: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith gives a keynote address at the LNG2023 conference in Vancouver, on July 13.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants her province's natural gas industry to be credited as a cure to global climate change, and she's not alone. There's a growing push in Western Canada to seek rewards on the global climate file for not just business as usual, but expanding exports of the fossil fuel. But is it an international emissions-reduction plan, or an attempt to avoid making cuts at home? The idea assumes a cargo of liquefied…