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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.
Fracking doesn't contaminate water supplies, faulty shale gas wells do. Leaks from faulty shale gas and oil wells have contaminated water supplies, but fracking itself is not to blame, scientists say. The film Gaslands showed residents near fracking sites who were able to set alight to the water from their taps, apparently due to methane contamination. By Emily Gosden, Energy Editor.