If this is true, this is great news. If we were able to use this new technology to slowly release the techtonic pressures at great depths, we might actually be able to mitigate some of the effects of the plate techtonic drift, massive earthquakes.
I think we should spend more money on these studies.
(sarcasm)
See, the studies are looking for reasons to condemn this practice. They will find additional detrimental effects until someone decides this is dangerous, bad for the planet, etc. Then the legal brigade and envirowackos will come in waving flags and flogging themselves in protest.
Who wrote the report? The guys who invented Global warming?
This is all just Commie Bullsh!t.
Small earthquakes can be set off by fracking, in areas where there would have been quakes sooner or later anyway.
Small earthquakes happen all the time. They are harmless, and in fact can sometimes be considered beneficial if they relieve the stress before it builds up into a big earthquake.
“Cause” is probably the wrong word. There would have been an earthquake anyway, in most cases, so all fracking did was to change the timing.
Earthquake scientists have experimented with the idea of deliberately stimulating small quakes, in order to lessen the chances of a big one. This isn’t much different.
I guess it depends whether you are wearing a green or a red hat. And whether you are producing something useful, or spending government funds from a research grant.
Ping.
I’ll bet that the math backing this “study” up (if indeed, there is any math at all), is right down there with the quality of the junk currently infesting global warming nests.
Math is not a friend of libs.
There must be one hell of a lot of fracking going on in Japan!
They have NO proof. This is not even a theory, just a hypothesis.
I wish schools would teach real science and those who call themselves “scientists” use the Scientific Method before shooting off their mouths and pens.
I guess there is not as much fame or fortune to be had by following real scientific rules.
They (so-called scientists) lied about warming for a political agenda; why wouldn’t they lie about fracking for the same reason?
Gee fracking has been used for over 60 years and just now someone says it causes earthquakes. Where is the data from our 60 years of experience to document more earthquakes in areas where fracking was used? I doubt there is any actual data just the same theoretical BS like that used to back up global warming.
I feel many earthquakes daily. Everytime a kid in his rice burner goes by with his audio system blasting. Not to mention the staight pipe motorcycles that also rattle my windows. Frack baby Frack. (I sit in the heart of Marcellus Country)