Life around New Mexico's gas wells: how fracking is turning the air foul

Leaked methane and other toxic gases are polluting the air with serious health risks for local communities whose fortunes depend on oil and gas in the shale boom state

"My daughter has asthma. She is not the only one around here, something is wrong here, our air quality shouldn't be this way."

Shirley "Sug" McNall is leaning up against a fence staring at a natural gas well about 40 meters from a playground behind the primary school where her daughter used to teach in Aztec, New Mexico. She believes that the gas industry and the explosion of fracking in her state is responsible for serious impacts on local air quality which are affecting people's health.