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happyslug

(14,779 posts)
9. More on that spot, it been bad since at least 2002:
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 10:13 PM
Jun 2015
http://www.livescience.com/50439-solving-methane-hot-spot-mystery.html

https://fromthestyx.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/four-corners-raw-data-show-crazy-methane-spikes/


Also, the Four Corners is the No. 1 producer in the U.S. of coal-bed methane, a type of natural gas. And, according to the EPA, natural-gas emissions from the Four Corners approaches 10 percent of the nation’s total.

http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20150420/NEWS01/150429979/Methane-blob-goes-under-microscope--


Could be coal seam Methane:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermejo_Park_Ranch
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