Fracking Method Linked To Ohio Earthquake
I'd say the bloom is off this rose.
CLEVELAND (AP) — A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday...
After the latest and largest quake Saturday at 4.0 magnitude, state officials announced their beliefs that injecting wastewater near a fault line had created enough pressure to cause seismic activity. They said four inactive wells within a five-mile (8 kilometer) radius of the Youngstown well would remain closed. But they also stressed that injection wells are different from drilling wells that employ fracking.
Armbruster said Monday he expects more quakes will occur despite the shutdown of the Youngstown well.
"The earthquakes will trickle on as a kind of a cascading process once you've caused them to occur," he said. "This one year of pumping is a pulse that has been pushed into the ground, and it's going to be spreading out for at least a year."
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Even so, the fracking juggernaut has just gotten started here in NW WI
No stopping it.
There's not that many places you can get this type of sand...how long till people around here are barred from land by Xe/Blackwater types like the public beaches were in the Gulf? Wouldn't surprise me too much.
Maybe you'd like to see a pic of a Wisconsin hill being "removed" by frack-ers?
I have a 'fresh" one from a week ago, I'll post it somewhere and link you. It's creepy. You live a lifetime with the idea in your head that you'll have to adjust to things like the hills out-lasting you, that you are the speck that will be blown away, the land and hills and all that go on like you were never there. THAT was supposed to be the "life lesson" right?
But no, now you have to get used to the idea that the hills will go before you do. And that maybe there won't be a well with good water no matter how deep you dig, because other people got there first and shat it all up. It's all backwards now. The
"lawmakers" are not there to enforce law, they are there to make sure their buddies can operate outside the law, to write law that protects not the common man but the lawBREAKERS. Laws are once again, for the Poor and Powerless only.
so - They'll just figure out how much cancer-koolaid shit-water these "wells" can hold without triggering earthquakes and call it good. Maybe the result will be more numerous but smaller shit-wells. Spread it around more so no quakes, just puke-filled aquifers. My guess anyways.
The bloom is of which rose? Certainly not fracking. Maybe deep well injection.
The article clearly stated that it was an injection disposal well not a production well.
Deep injection wells are used to dispose of all sorts of wastes ... not just from oil and gas drilling.
Fracking of production wells has been going on safely for 50+ years. The recent uproar over this proven technology is just the latest ploy to stop oil and gas development.
Think about the fracking process. It's just fracking no good. If you want to frack the environment mix water with sand and chemicals and inject the fracking fluid with incredible PSI pressures.
While the EPA recognizes the potential for contamination of water by hydraulic fracturing, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson testified in a Senate Hearing Committee "I'm not aware of any proven case where the fracking process itself has affected water...".[25] There are, however, documented incidents of contamination. In 2006 drilling fluids and methane were detected leaking from the ground near a gas well in Clark, Wyoming; 8 million cubic feet of methane were eventually released, and shallow groundwater was found to be contaminated.[22] In the town of Dimock, Pennsylvania, 13 water wells were contaminated with methane (one of them blew up), and the gas company, Cabot Oil & Gas, had to financially compensate residents and construct a pipeline to bring in clean water; the company continued to deny, however, that any "of the issues in Dimock have anything to do with hydraulic fracturing".[24][26
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