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Fracking methane leaks at least 100 times larger than EPA estimated, say researchers
2014-04-16 10:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Gas methane emissions from some shale gas wells in the eastern US could be orders of magnitude larger than the EPA has estimated, according to a report released this week. In a paper entitled Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development, scientists suggest that gas pads in southwestern Pennsylvania were releasing methane at a rate between 100 and 1,000 times greater than the EPA had suggested. "Large emissions averaging 34 g CH4/s per well...
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