Posted on 03/19/2014 12:36:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Three Los Angeles City Council members want city, state and federal groups to look into whether hydraulic fracturing and other forms of oil and gas “well stimulation” played any role in the earthquake that rattled the city early Monday morning.
The motion, presented Tuesday by Councilmen Paul Koretz and Mike Bonin and seconded by Councilman Bernard Parks, asks for city departments to team up with the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, the U.S. Geological Survey and the South Coast Air Quality Management District to report back on the likelihood that such activities contributed to the 4.4-magnitude quake.
Earlier this year, the council voted to draft rules that would bar hydraulic fracturing, often referred to as “fracking,” acidizing and other kinds of well stimulation in Los Angeles until council members felt sure that Angelenos and the water they drink were safe from their effects. The risk of triggering earthquakes was among the dangers cited by Bonin and Koretz, who championed the move.
“All high-pressure fracking and injection creates ‘seismic events,’” the motion states. It added, “Active oil extraction activities are reportedly taking place on the Veteran’s Administration grounds in West Los Angeles, nearby the epicenter” of the Monday quake.
"It is crucial to the health and safety of the City's residents to understand the seismic impacts of oil and gas extraction activities in the City," the motion said. Environmental activists have pointed to swarms of earthquakes in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Ohio as evidence of the risk. Oil and gas companies counter that fracking and other technologies used to coax oil and gas from wells are safe, and have opposed the push to ban the methods inside L.A. city limits.
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Twenty years ago, there was someone saying that we need to stop pumping water out of the Ogala aquifer because it was going to make LA fall into the sea.
But if it was true, then use it to make STEAM for POWER, and who needs Fraking!
They must have been fracking harder than they ever had before in order to cause an earthquake.
They just want to get themselves set up to create a Fracks Tax. That’s all.
Yes because earthquakes are modern phenomena that have only come about since the practice of tracking came into existence.
Are they fracking in Beverly Hills then? Hardihar...
It will all be up in the Bakersfield oil fields, NOT the very pricey West side of Los Angeles. Honestly ..
They are lucky they haven’t tipped over any islands with their destructive industry!
Thanks for posting. We’re in California, husband is a geologist. They are nuts up in Sacramento, AND gas prices are plenty high, thank you very much. AND we’ll NEVER take the subway!!
It must be caused by fracking because it is difficult (but not impossible) to blame “extreme conditions” like earthquakes on man-made global warming.
It’s a beautiful place. I’m just amazed how it’s changed since the days when RR was gov.
Well... it is supposed to be 80 degrees today, and it's been like this for a couple of days here, so, it must be global warming.
And I bet there's an article somewhere that blames global warming for earthquakes.
We all know that global warming causes everything that is wrong in the world (/s).
Who knows? Maybe fracking during global warming equals a double dose of doom?
Not to worry-the LA city council is on the case.
Does 'intelligence' play a role in getting elected a L.A. councilman? Appalled voters want to know!
They need to ban something -like plastic bags-to stop the earthquakes.
No, its the gravity effects of the asteroid 163 Erigone coming to kill us all and blot out Regulus!
*/ end psychotic ranting in fit of butterfly nets and elbows of orderlies*
Sure, that’s it, and the 1906 San Francisco quake was caused by gold mining. Don’t disturb the earth!
Those fracking dinosaurs! LOL
That must be the explanation-now pleeze take your meds , and the nice men in the white coats will escort you back to your room.
Fricking
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