Plug the leaks! is there another choice?
Landfill leaks methane, as do sewerage plants.
Large plastic sheets collect landfill methane, which can be stored in simple bladders, and used in nearby households for cooking and heating?
Scrubbed it'll even run diesel engines, or better yet, ceramic fuel cells, which have the added benefit of producing mostly water vapor as the exhaust product; and endless free hot water.
Sewerage plants can be made closed cycle, so they make and can collect quite copious methane.
Each and every household produces enough waste, which when digested, produces enough methane to power said house or high rise or village etc.
Simply put, coal seams have been leaking methane for as long as there have been coal seams, and frozen copious methane underneath Continental shelves and in the tundra, is also melting; and as millions of cubic metres per day!
Rather than obfuscate or wedge, as the author appears to, we need to get on the ball and find ways to collect and use these sources of copious gas.
But particularly, given we can use this source of fuel, in ceramic fuel cells, to drive trains, trams, buses, trucks and stretch Limos; and power our homes!
And given the 80% energy coefficient of the ceramic fuel cell, for around 75% less than now!
The coal fired power stations/oil cartels, may not be able to compete, given the cost of collecting gas may in fact be negligible?
Meaning they either convert to gas (CNG) or go out of business.
Those conventional power stations that invest in companion algae farming enterprises, will have a highly profitable means of offsetting their emission.
Some algae are up to 60% oil, absorb 2.5 times their own bodyweight in Co2 emission, and under optimized conditions, double that bodyweight/absorption capacity, and oil production numbers, every 24 hours.
Some types produce naturally occurring and virtually ready to use diesel or jet fuel.
The sooner a start is made, the sooner, the daily doubling will eguate to, some serious bio fuel production outcomes, and indeed, long after the coal seams have run out!
Rhrosty.

Has that fool Obama ever got anything right?

Hopefully the next administration will grow some guts, & reverse most of the stupidity, or corruption that has occurred under this idiot.

Here is the link to the Methane concentrations data in the atmosphere collected by the CSIRO http://www.csiro.au/greenhouse-gases/

As can be seen from the graph, although methane concentrations have kicked up a little in the past few years these are nothing like the increases seen in the 1990s. Some writers have connected the flattening out of methane increases with a major effort to fix up leaks from the Russian and European pipelines..

All of this angst, regulation and expense just to try to reduce a miniscule amount of life giving natural fertiliser. This will surely go down as mankinds dumbest period... How's the ole temperature rise going over the past 20 odd years fellas?

Any article that attempts to out potential 'greenwash' announcements from governments is okay by me even if the writer hails from an interesting site named oilprice.com which spruiks itself as the No.1 Source for Oil and Energy News.

Dear Prompete,

Yep good mate, record number of over 40 days in Adelaide over the summer and now a record of over 20 days for May here in Melbourne. How is it in your neck of the woods?

And you are correct about the dumbest period, when else did a near unanimous call by scientists in a particular field for urgent action to combat a threat, been so comprehensively ignored by the wilfully ignorant?

Methane leaking from fracking sites is not as big a concern as the store of methane stored in the Arctic region.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YegdEOSQotE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eM5WPl69Z18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2GH_6qEVY

http://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/the-arctic-methane-monster-stirs-nasas-carve-finds-plumes-as-large-as-150-kilometers-across-amidst-year-of-troubling-spikes/