Posted on 01/03/2012 8:41:15 AM PST by DJ MacWoW
CLEVELAND (AP) - A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.
Research is continuing on the now-shuttered injection well at Youngstown and seismic activity, but it might take a year for the wastewater-related rumblings in the earth to dissipate, said John Armbruster of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y.
Brine wastewater dumped in wells comes from drilling operations, including the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale that has been a source of concern among environmental groups and some property owners. Injection wells have also been suspected in quakes in Ashtabula in far northeast Ohio, and in Arkansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma, Armbruster said.
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I call BS. Another leftist hoax blaming man for the earth’s natural functions.
BS. More of the left’s anti-drilling narrative.
There’s already water in the ground. The wastewater probably started out there.
This “expert’s” opinion is a crock.
This just sounds like another so-called-scientist with a liberal agenda.
yes and dinosaur methane ended the last ice age right? right?
BS. More BS from the BSer’s.
The more I see, the more I realize that environmentalism is an atavistic, doomsday cult. They have their gods, and their gods punish a wicked mankind with earthquakes, drought, plague, etc... - for sins against Mother Earth
Dirt worshipers...
*clicking tongue* You had to go and spoil the lefty’s rant with common sense. ;-)
Earthquakes from well liquid injection have been documented for decades; first was at Rocky Flats in California.
The quakes were within 100 yards of the injection well.
Err, Rocky Flats in Colorado. Was a very deep radioactive waste disposal well.
Amazing. What kind of “science” is this? One where a single “scientist” just says “no doubt caused by” and that makes it fact? Really?
Where’s the data? what methodology was used to determine the conclusion? is it repeatable? has it been peer reviewed? etc.
Funny how the left accepts non-science when it suits their agenda.
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No banners. No pop-ups. We just make stuff up. No kidding.
The ground found the water unsavory, and upchucked it in the form of a quake?
show me the proof...words are meaningless
Yeah I’d like to ring a few lefty bells myself.
just like oil is decomposed dinosaurs.... another myth
Subsurface hydrology often does play a part in earthquakes but even if this were proven to be the result of the injection wells, I still fail to see the problem.
Large trucks driving by have more effect than these tremors.
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