A billion cubic feet of the potent greenhouse gas were spewed into atmosphere in rural Pennsylvania amid state’s fracking boom
for a year. The incident triggered a bomb scare at one school after a student overheard a bus driver talking about the risk of explosions.
The Rager Mountain leak was huge. The estimated flow rate on 7 November, the day after the leak sprung, was 120 tonnes of methane an hour, according to satellite data analysed by the company. By this measure, it was only the second largest onshore leak in the US last year, surpassed by one near San Antonio, Texas in March which discharged 147 tonnes of methane an hour.
“Right from the start the company tried to underplay the magnitude but we don’t feel safe in our own home any more, they’ve taken away our sense of security. They promised us restitution but that’s not happened. I would like some truthful answers,” said Harrison. Jackson Township is a majority-white Republican-leaning community with just more than 4,000 habitants in Cambria county, a former coal and steel heartland in western Pennsylvania which promotes itself as. Pipelines, power plants and wells – active and abandoned – are scattered throughout the community, and local people are proud of the region’s industrial heritage.
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