It does state:
Emissions from drilling, including fracking, and leaks from transmission pipes totaled 225 million metric tons of carbon-dioxide equivalents during 2011, second only to power plants, which emitted about 10 times that amount.
The article then goes on to talk about how horrible fracking is on the enviornment. But that is not what the report said, it says emissions from all drilling.
But, anyways, shouldn't this be a DUH statement? I mean, the whole point of fracking IS to release natual gases, which IS methane, hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and other gases. Oh no, while drilling for gas, we release.... GAS!!!! OMG!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas [wikipedia.org]
Okay, I am exagerating the OMG. I mean, there are greenhouse emis
Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/xJUEgxcnJ7Q/story01.htm
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