Posted on 06/18/2015 4:43:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The more oil and gas companies pump their saltwater waste into the ground, and the faster they do it, the more they have triggered earthquakes in the central United States, a massive new study found.
An unprecedented recent jump in quakes in America’s heartland can be traced to the stepped up rate that drilling wastewater is injected deep below the surface, according to a study in Thursday’s journal Science that looked at 187,570 injection wells over four decades.
It’s not so much the average-sized injection wells, but the supercharged ones that are causing the ground to shake. Wells that pumped more than 12 million gallons of saltwater into the ground per month were far more likely to trigger quakes than those that put lesser amounts per month, the study from the University of Colorado found.
Although Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and other states have seen increases in earthquakes, the biggest jump has been in Oklahoma. …
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So they have one study that says it does versus the fifty or so that say it doesn’t?
Tectonic plates move, and earthquakes occur when they slip past each other. You can't stop the plate movement, so earthquakes are inevitable.
The only question is: do you want all of the energy released at one time, or spread over many smaller occurrences?
They should be fracking the hell out of the fault lines in California, even if they don't get any oil/gas out of it.
And WHY do they inject the fluid into wastewater wells?
Because it’s an EPA regulation.
Which never gets mentioned.
I remember looking this guy Borenstein up.
He’s got an agenda.
Noticeable earthquakes have also been happening for the first time in known history in several areas without fracking.
The earth’s mantle is always under stress. This occasionally causes massive earthquakes that kill thousands. If there were a way to produce multiple small earthquakes, the stress would be relieved, and the massive quakes wouldn’t happen. This is exactly what fracking does.
One “study” that fits the narrative, yes.
Let’s get the pope right on this.
Fracking doesn’t produce earthquakes. It complete fiction from start to finish.
It’s pure AP bullcrap.
What's one of the biggest problems with people today? STRESS! People are stressed out.
How do people deal with LOTS OF STRESS? They FREAK OUT!
How do people avoid the freak-outs? They look for something to relieve stress: Meditation, massage, alcohol, drugs.
OK NOW, listen carefully:
What's the problem with Mother Earth today? STRESS! Mother Earth is stressed out.
How does Mother Earth deal with LOTS OF STRESS? She FREAKS OUT! BIG EARTHQUAKES!!
How should people help Mother Earth avoid freaking out?
Relieve Mother Earth's stress.
Re-package "fracking" as "Massaging Mother Earth to Relieve Her Stress".
Go ahead, laugh.
Think about who you're dealing with. Tree huggers, etc.
I'm completely serious.
Clearly not. Such arrant nonsense! Everybody knows that fracking is responsible for the melting of the ice caps and the structural failure of apartment buildings in China. As well as the spread of drug-resistant AIDS. Oh, and the Rising Tide of Racism in America.
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