That's not the whole story. The Netherlands refrains from developing its natural gas fields to their full extent and yet the damage caused by the resulting eart

That's not the whole story. The Netherlands refrains from developing its natural gas fields to their full extent and yet the damage caused by the resulting earthquakes is considerable and widespread - very much like a nuke, just over a much longer timespan: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61901033 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61901033 Russia on the other hand is largely uninhabited and its gas deposits don't require fracking - they only started testing the technology this year.