Sentences with phrase «if fugitive methane»

Also, if fugitive methane emissions exceed 3 percent of total gas production, natural gas's climate advantage over coal disappears over a 20 - year time horizon.

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But a study published Monday adds to the growing evidence those escaping gases, called «fugitive» emissions, are numerous, especially methane emissions while a well is being drilled, a phase of well development previously thought to emit little if any methane.

A carbon tax could come back to bite natural gas producers big time if the EPA decides, along the lines of Cornell University research, that fugitive methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing make natural gas as carbon - intensive as coal.