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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.
We're not sure how much methane is trapped in methyl clathrates, or how much is in danger of escaping. The other major source of methane in the Arctic is the organic matter frozen in permafrost. This is the source of methane that I study. The organic matter in permafrost contains a lot of carbon. It is made of dead plants and animals that have been frozen deep in permafrost for thousands of years.