Given the results of Fracking close to home and the pollution it causes, you would think polluting the cleanest areas of the planet would be a bad idea.. Think Again! The Greed of these Oil / Energy Swine know no bounds…
AND So far from the prying eyes of public scrutiny, it would be years before we noticed the effects. It would be a safe guess in assuming they would forego many of the saftey practices (having little to none in the Arctic) they use close to home as well. They would Decimate any of the areas they drill with little to no over-sight.. bet on it!

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Scientists in Japan and the U.S. say they are moving closer to tapping a new source of energy: methane hydrate, a crystalline form of natural gas found in Arctic permafrost and at the bottom of oceans.

At room temperature the crystal gives off intense heat, earning it the nickname of “fire in ice,” and making the estimated 700,000 trillion cubic feet of the substance scattered around the world a potentially major fuel source, containing more energy than all previously discovered oil and gas combined, according to researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey.

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