Ohio: Fracking waste led to earthquakes

AP ^ | 3/9/2012 | Julie Carr Smyth

[castowell]

A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, Ohio oil and gas regulators said Friday as they announced a series of tough new regulations for drillers...

[castowell]

..."almost certainly induced" tells me it's not definitive. So, let's pile on a ton more regulation!

[achilles2000]

More made-up BS to stop energy production.

[Joe the Pimpernel]

Global warming deja vu all over again.

[mo]

Bunch of bureaucratic parasites looking for an excuse for their paycheck....

[KittenClaws]

I have four words for those regulators:

Freeze In The Dark.

[DManA]

Where there is a quake there is stress. A lot of little quakes is much better than one big one.

[Tenacious 1]

Really?

Are we in a Superman movie? Now we can cause earthquakes?

We better raise everybody’s taxes so we can study how to stop them and figure out how earthquakes are the “fault” of humans.

[McGruff]

If oil wells create earthquakes what about all the water wells in this country? Should they be banned?

[Usagi_yo]

We don’t need regulations as Fracking is almost certainly safe.

[Doogle]

"aftershocks"

[Doogle]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Flapdoodle.

[M Kehoe]

A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, Ohio oil and gas regulators said...

Ok, then drill all along the San Andres fault. Release the pressure gradually, so there isn't a major earthquake in San Fransicko and LA.

Oh, wait...

5.56mm

[DesertRhino]

A trivial tremor for a huge supply of gas,, sounds worth it to me. I must have missed the devastation and deaths in Ohio.

[tumblindice]

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/danny-glover-thinks-the-haitian-earthquake-was-caused-by-global-warming

Danny Glover says it’s globull warming.

[JimRed]

Yeah, and CO2 from human activity caused global warming...errrr...climate change.

[lacrew]

This is the response to a 4.0 earthquake NW of Youngstown.

An earthquake in Ohio is unheard of.

Which makes it even more perplexing as to why there is an ‘Ohio Seismic Network’...with a catalog of a couple hundred earthquakes:

http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/geosurvey/html/eqcat01c/tabid/8295/Default.aspx

But we know this one must have been from fracking.

[JimRed]

We better raise everybody’s taxes so we can study how to stop them and figure out how earthquakes are the “fault” of humans.

Create a problem, create an industry solving it. That's how I believe all that computer virus stuff got started...

[Freddd]

almost certainly ——

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[BenLurkin]

Is it even possible?

[Texan5]

I’ve got two for the regulators-Frak Off! (apologies to the “Battlestar Galactica” series)...

[BfloGuy]

The article does get around to properly stating the issue.

"In fact, all the evidence indicates that properly located … injection wells will not cause earthquakes."

[dearolddad]

If oil wells create earthquakes what about all the water wells in this country? Should they be banned?

Japan must be doing one hell of a lot of fracking.

[SouthTexas]

Glock, can you post your earthquake tracking map so the good people here can have good defense to this BS?

[man from mars]

I just read a post about the Sun is causing all the earthquakes. The sun spots activities is have an effect on earth magnetic field and earths core.

[man from mars]

I just read a post about the Sun is causing all the earthquakes. The sun spots activities is have an effect on earth magnetic field and earths core.

[man from mars]

I just read a post about the Sun is causing all the earthquakes. The sun spots activities is have an effect on earth magnetic field and earths core.

[fini]

I used to live in the mountains of Virginia, about 60 miles from the West Virginia border. The house was built in 1909. The dining room was two inches off level because of an earth quake in the 1920s. I wonder what caused that earth quake?

[The Great RJ]

This reminds me of Voltaire's Candide where the Grand Inquisitor blamed the great Lisbon earthquake of 1715 on the Inquisition's failure to burn enough heretics.

[TLI]

The house was built in 1909. The dining room was two inches off level because of an earth quake in the 1920s. I wonder what caused that earth quake?

That's easy, George Bush!

George causes dandruff as well. Lotta folks don't know that one...

.

[bmwcyle]

Liberals kill more than anything on Earth.

[Liberty Valance]

*woof*

[Ditto]

Great points. I live next store in Pittsburgh and have for the last 50+ years always heard of these tremors in NE Ohio, and some folks I know here have claimed to have felt them here in SW PA. I don't doubt them, but I never once felt anything.

Point is that an minor tremor in NE Ohio is not at all unusual. I can recall dozens being reported over the years. There are well known fault lines running underneath Lake Erie and it would not be surprising if they ran as far south as Youngstown --- only about 40 miles South.

This is the eco-commies just looking for another reason to strangle the economy by shutting down the energy supply.

Our bureaucracies at the State, Local and Federal levels have been fully stocked with leftists more than willing to use government power to "save the earth' from imaginary threats, even if it destroys the people they are supposed to serve.

To them, truth means nothing. Science means nothing. Ideology is everything! (Well.... ideology plus their fat cat government pensions.)

[TLI]

It will do that?

OK, this is my new favorite hangout...

[Liberty Valance]

L o L !

[glock rocks]

Glock, can you post your earthquake tracking map so the good people here can have good defense to this BS?

It's free, and it's here. You can zoom in with your mouse wheel too.

[SouthTexas]

Thank you sir. Hopefully a few more will download it and we’ll gather more of an army against this absurdity.

Probably not, but it sounds good anyway eh?