The oil and gas law, West said, is intended to ensure extraction of the maximum amount of oil and gas from a large area, protect the mineral rights of multiple landowners, and prevent waste of the resource.

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To date no technology has been able to accurately measure and quantify the amount of methane emitted from fracking sites and other natural gas fields over a large scale.

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