Natural gas production environmental hazards

In the former Soviet Union, as much as 4 to 9 percent of natural gas produced may be lost due to natural gas pipeline ruptures (50-70 each year) and leakage during both natural gas production stages and distribution networks. There is no evidence of a slowdown in Soviet gas production.

1. Landscape disfigurement
2. Environmental impacts from mining
3. Environmental hazards from chemicals and petrochemicals industries

1. Soil erosion
2. Environmentally destructive redirection of water flows
3. Environmental degradation from use of unsurfaced country roads and tracks
4. Environmental degradation by pipelines

1. Threatened habitats of indigenous peoples
2. Increase in atmospheric concentration of methane
3. High cost of natural gas trade infrastructure
4. Degradation of flora and fauna habitats

1. Waste disposal in deep wells

1. Using natural gas
2. Storing natural gas
3. Reducing methane emissions from petroleum production
4. Reducing atmospheric methane concentrations

1. Unproductivity
2. Unnaturalness
3. Underproduction
4. Overproduction
5. Hazard