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		jtbaker 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's w... Isn't LNG a byproduct of the fracking process - and natural gas has taken over a good chunk of coal's role in our electricity generation?

defrost 61 days ago [–]

Extracting LNG may or may not be via fracking, and may come from conventional or unconvential fields.

The largest LNG gas fields currently producing are not being "fracked", eg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pars/North_Dome_Gas-Cond...

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