There is another issue here.
Remember Napster. Part of the problem was that the music industry had not figured out a way to make the internet into a revenue producer.
Transfer that thought to the power company the farmer and the methane. What is needed is a way to make the methane generation provide a benefit to the power company. There must be ways but we just have not come to them yet.
A link to the hole in antartica.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000911.html
I mention this and know that we in the US do, without a doubt, the poorest job of any country in controling our emmissions.