Posted on 04/13/2012 6:40:17 AM PDT by BigEdLB
Over the past few years, the number of earthquakes in the usually seismically calm central United States has skyrocketed. Now scientists are pointing the finger at hydraulic fracturing, better known as "fracking," as the culprit.
Fracking is a method of extracting natural gas, the cleanest fossil fuel, from underground rocks. Proponents of natural gas say it could reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil since vast majority of it comes from within the country. Natural gas is also more plentiful and cheaper than oil.
Read more: http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2012-04/earthquakes-in-central-us-almost-certainly-tied-to-fracking.aspx?storyid=133445#ixzz1rvY1bGUP
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The Russians used a nuke to "fracture" that well!
Oh we can’t be proactive and alter the earth. these folks think reducing risk is messing up the environment.
Great.
The mother of all Eastern earthquakes, New Madrid, (1812) was caused by fracking ( 2000s).
Got it.
Regards,
GtG
I would advise everyone in the Central U.S. to get out as fast as possible.
Those who thrive in a world of shortages do indeed have an agenda, especially if the thing in short supply is a way to remain ‘relevant’ and get funding. Of course, those who toady up the the Usurper and promote his agenda just might get a Dacha somewhere...
The data is out there as to just what effects are felt and where from the frac, horizontally and vertically those effects occur.
They could produce that data, and frankly, all else is speculation or BS.
Not a chance. Thanks BigEdLB.
The real cause of diminishing resources?
Liberals and points further left.
The solution?
Getting rid of liberals and points further left.
The US tried that, too, in Colorado, many moons ago.
An earthquake is something far more large. It is the result of the release of stored energy when the earth's plates move relative to one another usually along a fault plane.
There is no possible way fracking could cause the earth's plates to move. The government employees quoted in the article said as much when they said they could not think of a way that fracking could cause an actual earthquake.
Studying the data you mentioned could help to understand the effects of fracking. I don't think that is what the government employees are doing. They are just speculating without doing a study. It is all political.
However, the Government has the data.
Fracking isn't causing any earthquakes. There have been some low-magnitude seismic events related to injection and disposal wells. That isn't a secret, and it isn't fracking, either.
Given the present anti-oil agenda of the current administration, I would not be surprised to find that there will be a continued and concerted effort to confuse the public so there will be an outcry for shutting fracking down for their safety.
Keep in mind, even a moratorium to 'study the problem' will collapse state economies where current drilling and production programs utilize fracking to make the wells economical, from the Marcellus and Utica Shales, to the Bakken/Three Forks in North Dakota and Montana, to the Barnett and Eagle Ford plays in Texas--all depend on fracking to open up the rock and increase production.
While the estimates of pipeline jobs were around 100,000, the number of jobs which would be affected, direct, support, and related to oil and gas revenue probably number in the millions.
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