Here is an interview with a knowledgeable and concerned former Mobil Oil executive who discusses the long-term danger of methane leaks.
Fracking and Climate Change
The retired executive, Louis W. Allstadt, pleads with the public to educate themselves about the damage fracking is causing and will continue to cause long after the wells are capped. Fracking is just another in a long string of irresponsible and highly polluting ways the oil industry is plundering our planet in the name of short term profits, and our countrysides are becoming littered with working and non-working wells. The public and landowners are being seduced as usual with the lure of big money and "good" jobs, but mark my words they will find out later they have been left to suffer the bitter consequences of ruined aquifers and blighted landscapes with insufficient money for restoration and cleanup. And as soon as the fracking boom has run its course—which according to reports I have read will be much sooner than the frackers are letting on—many if not most of these "good" jobs will dry up.
