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Big Leaks Found in Pennsylvania Fracking Wells
2014-04-15 21:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A new study has found that a small number of gas wells are releasing significant quantities of methane into the air even before they are hydraulically fractured, or fracked. The paper, published yesterday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the result of measurements of methane made by flying an airplane over parts of the Marcellus Shale. The researchers detected a "significant regional flux" of methane, a greenhouse gas with about 30 times the warming potential...
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