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Gulf oil & gas disaster, fracking, media censorship & dirty gas threat to World

27 August 2011, 07:12, by Matt

Disclaimer : I work in the CSG industry, so I may be biased, but ...

The figures on fugitive emissions of methane from gas wells quoted by Howarth et al are manifestly implausible. If they were within two orders of magnitude of being correct then venturing onto a drill site would be sheer suicide ...

The paper at http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/mismeasuringmethane082311.pdf pretty much sums it up, and identifies the inappropriate data that was used to make the estimates.

That said, your theme of it being desirable to greatly reduce all fossil fuel use asap is sound. No argument there.