Posted on 03/29/2016 8:13:31 AM PDT by rktman
Joel Achenbach at the Washington Post is out to save you all from a potential catastrophe. The evil oil and gas industry is going to cause most of the people reading this to flee in terror from their homes as earthquakes ravage the land and zombies begin to feast on the flesh of the living.
Okay.. it’s not quite that bad, but a quick read of this study will likely have you checking for the nearest exits in your buildings. You see, fracking is causing earthquakes in unusual places (which is actually true, though not nearly on the calamitous scale as is implied) and it could impact up to half the people in the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
A pinprick of a pipe cannot possible start a earthquake involving millions of tons of rock miles deep. Nature views us as pests and treats us accordingly.
"Ask those people at Pompeii, who were frozen into position from volcanic ash. How the planet’s doin’. Wanna know if the planet’s alright, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia, or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble if they feel like a threat to the planet this week." - George Carlin
It is not a pinprick of a pipe. It is injection millions of gallons of produced water deep under ground. This adds pressure and weight to formations and can produce earthquakes. I have worked in this industry for 25 years, so I have a good understanding of what is going on. My company depends on fracking, and I am a big proponent of it. We just have to put more thought into where we dump the produced water. We wouldn’t pump it into the lakes and oceans. It would kill them.
I agree about nature, but this is nature’s way of saying cause and affect.
Perhaps the quakes are relieving pressure that would have otherwise built up over time and produced a real killer quake.
That is more what I tend to think. There is some evidence that there have been major quakes along that fault in the past. There just hasn’t been anything in the last two hundred years. Supposedly, it is a pretty good sized fault capable of producing the “big one”. I would much rather have 3.0 and 4.0 earthquakes several times a year, than one massive 7.0.
Frack all liberals.
They are fracking nuts.
Frickin’ frackin’ freaks.
Relieving the overstressed Erf in small doses should help minimize the possibility of The Big One.
Fracking is the new F word.
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