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Natural gas itself affects the environment in two ways:
- When it escapes and mixes with the air, its major component, methane, is a powerful greenhouse gas and promotes global warming.
- When it is used as a fuel it creates carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas. In this case the greenhouse effect is less than that of the raw natural gas and the carbon emissions less than the amount generated by most other fuels.
The search for and production of natural gas can require several types of disturbance of the environment associated with tracking, ecology disruption, stream diversion and waste disposal.
It causes global warming because it produces greenhouse gas
It can kill many things, for example in your backyard it can kill the flowers.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoThe oil and gas industry have had serious effects on the environment by digging and drilling for oil causing the Earth's resource to slowly deplete. Another factor is when they use faulty equipment causing large scale oil spills that end in the death of thousands of animals.
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∙ 8y agoNatural gas (methane) when burnt, releases carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases causing global warming. When natural gas is releases into the atmosphere, it absorbs heat because it, too, is a greenhouse gas.
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∙ 8y agoNatural gas (methane) is a greenhouse gas, and one of the fossil fuels, but it also escapes from melting bogs and lakes, and from the stomachs of cattle and other animals.
As a gas (methane), it traps the sun's heat rising from the earth and causes global warming.
If it is burnt as a fuel, it emits carbon dioxide, another of the greenhouse gases, also causing global warming.
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∙ 11y agoby releasing green house gases in large quantity into the environment
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