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Fracking can cause nearby abandoned wells leak methane: Study

2015-10-21 15:10:46| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Hydraulic fracturing can cause nearby abandoned oil wells to leak methane, according to a study published on Tuesday in the peer-reviewed Water Resources Research journal, marking a potentially large source of unrecorded greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers at the University of Vermont examined a part of New York state overlying the Marcellus shale gas reservoir to determine the chances that a newly fracked well there would intersect one of the state's thousands of existing wellbores. "Average...

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