Natural gas extraction is booming-and so are harmful methane leaks
(WorldNews Environment)

Pipelines aren`t the only places that natural gas can leak out (Deposit Photos/) With new drilling technologies, natural gas extraction has boomed in recent years. In British Columbia, hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. `fracking`) in previously hard-to-reach deposits enabled natural gas production to double between 2006 and 2017. Though natural gas burns cleaner than coal, it´s no climate savior. And a new study of gas and oil resources of the northeastern part of British Columbia shows that many of the wells there are losing gas through leaks. That gas is mostly made up of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. `It´s a really impressive dataset in terms of the number of samples,` says Amy...