Single Queensland coal bore emits as much methane as 10,000 cars, new study shows

<https://reneweconomy.com.au/single-queensland-gas-bore-emits-as-much-methane-as-10000-cars-new-study-shows/>

"Capping one coal borehole in Queensland would prevent the equivalent of 10,000
cars-worth of methane escaping into the atmosphere, University of Queensland
researchers have found.

And there are as many as 130,000 similar abandoned boreholes in the state – 1.3
billion car’s worth of emissions – that may or may not be properly capped.

The study in Science of Total Environment measured the emissions from a
single borehole in the Surat basin (below) over seven days and found it had a
mean emission rate of 235 tonnes a year. That’s the equivalent of 10,000 cars
driving 12,000km a year."

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