yes, the gas is coming up from a deposit deep in the
earth's crust, travels through fissures and cracks in
the rock strata. and certainly there is Nothing that
can be capped because it's everywhere in the ground.

and i suppose that they could drill 50 relief wells
and hope that the damn gas deposit empties in 10 or 20 years.
but, what if this gargantuan gas deposit is deeper than
any technology can drill?

in that case the natural gas would just keep creeping and
creeping, making every area it saturated uninhabitable.
so, how much area will this "thing" saturate?
only all of Assumption Parish? all of Southern Louisiana
(including New Orleans)? just how far will this gas
permeate the ground and make entire areas uninhabitable?
(and to what extent will any of this gas collect into
huge clouds with the proper air-fuel mixture to make
it an explosion hazard?)....