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Photo: Daniel Foster/Flickr. Critics of the natural gas extraction technique known as fracking have long criticized it for leaking too much methane â a potent greenhouse gas â into the atmosphere during the extraction process.he Environmental Protection Agency recently estimated that natural gas operations emitted about 145 million metric tons of methane in 2011, making it the biggest source of these emissions in the country.
Posted on Fri, 29 November 2013 22:34 | 2. A major new study finds that methane emissions from the production of shale gas may in fact be higher than previously thought.The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on November 25, casts into doubt the notion that natural gas produces half as much greenhouse gas pollution as coal.ethane can be released from natural gas wells during the drilling process. Scientists have thus far had difficulty measuring these âfugitive methane emissionsâ precisely, with competing studies stirring controversy.