After the explosion of the Nordstream pipeline, wouldn’t it had been better for the environment to lit up the leaking methane gas instead of letting it escape in the atmosphere?

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After the explosion of the Nordstream pipeline, wouldn’t it had been better for the environment to lit up the leaking methane gas instead of letting it escape in the atmosphere?

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probably not so easy to just light it up, methane is only flammable in a ~5-15% mix with air