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Guardian: Your report on fracking (Vast gas field set to turn Blackpool into Dallas-on-sea, 22 September) failed to mention the impact of the exploitation of huge quantities of gas in the shale beneath Lancashire on climate change. While it's true that burning natural gas produces less CO2 than oil or coal per tonne of fuel burnt, this argument does not take into consideration the leakage of methane. This greenhouse gas, some 70 times more potent at producing global warming after 20 years than CO2, would be......
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Shale gas find threat to UK carbon goals
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 27th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation