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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (900035)	11/10/2015 6:19:02 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574856

That shows that CO2 ISN'T a potent greenhouse gas. Thanks for pointing that out. The natural gas industry captures methane for burning and turning it into impotent CO2. The EPA says leakage is much lower than your source and they WANT to regulate ng: energyindepth.org Bear in mind that natural gas is the industry's PRODUCT, the source of their revenue. They have a powerful incentive to not let it slip away.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (900035)	12/7/2015 1:52:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574856

What is striking in the EPA's 2011 U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory, beyond the particular question of green completions and best practices, is how low its estimate of methane leakage is, relatively to total U.S. emissions. On p. ES-13 of the Executive Summary, EPA reports that CH4 accounts for 8.8 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. With leakage from natural gas systems accounting for less than a quarter of total CH4 emissions, methane leakage appears to represent only about 2 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, if the EPA is right. On the face of it, the benefits from switching large fractions of coal generation to gas—producing a 50 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions, per unit energy—would seem to far outweigh the emissions costs from leakage. Of course the methodology EPA has used in its estimates is hugely complex and, therefore, open to dispute. spectrum.ieee.org