While I understand the desire to switch to a domestic energy source and the financial enticement of that, high - pressured hydraulic fracturing, which is a relatively new form of fracturing within the decade, has been linked to a 1000 cases of groundwater contamination, including flammable tap water in Colorado, methane explosions in West Virginia, and poisoned, flammable water in Pennsylvania. (nystateofpolitics.com)
Hundreds of craters caused by methane explosions were discovered underneath Barents sea. (techtimes.com)
An undersea methane explosion may have driven the most rapid warming episode of the past 90 million years (scientificamerican.com)