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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Yes it’s all fracking’s fault! There was never an earthquake in LA before fracking. /s
What a fracking idiot!
LOL!
I just had to try and find the most wacked out explanation I could find.
{At least I didn’t wade through the “reptoid conspiracy” stuff for it. Ugh! *shudder*]
You’ve gotta be kidding me. Did they just come across the border last election?
One would think so. But recall that last year, a CNN anchorwoman (Deborah Feyerick) asked on-air if global warming was causing an asteroid to pass so close to earth.
Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s I I did some consulting for Amoco around the LA basin and Santa Maria. Then went up to Bakersfield for williams Brothers up on the ELK RIDGE. Drilled and Fraced around 30 wells during that time, lot’s of movement and thermal activity in that area. We had down hole temp’s over 300 degree’s.
It wasn’t Fracking.
A Malaysian Airlines 777 flew into the San Andreas Fault.
They got the idea from an old Superman Movie.
The Pilot was Lex Luthor.
The end of irrigation dried out the land. The loss of the water weight produced an unequal weight distribution across the fault. \\
The seesaw effect across the fault length induced moment stresses resulting in earth quakes.
EcoMoonbats are at fault
That's it! That's what happened.
Doesn't matter though-The LA city council will conclude that they need to ban something, tax something, or a combination of the two, to stop the earth from shaking. Then they will vote themselves a big pay raise for all their "hard work".
Unleashing giant gophers!
Morons with policy votes .. sound familiar ?
Are they fracking in Japan ..?? If not, then please explain why they had the largest earthquake ever recorded.
Also .. To my knowledge .. Gov Brown has not given approval for fracking in CA.
These environmentalist whackos are just getting tiresome.
LA was tipping over like Guam?
Nope they've been there done that and we still have those pesky earthquakes that have been going on for centuries, we will have to sacrifice something to Gaia that hit consumers even harder!
Maybe it didn’t cause this one, but how smart is it to do fracking on/very close to earthquake fault lines? Kind of like how smart was Japan to build a nook plant on earthquake fault lines.
And it seems proven that fracking does cause quakes in areas not known for seismic activity. Ohio.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/09/us-energy-fracking-ohio-idUSBRE8281DX20120309
And Oklahoma.
“From 1975 to 2008, the US Geological Survey found that central Oklahoma experienced one to three 3.0-magntitude earthquakes per year, The Nation reported. That number jumped to an average of 40 a year from 2009 to 2013.”
http://rt.com/usa/oklahoma-earthquakes-fracking-wells-826/
So why do we tempt fate to frack in highly earthquake prone California. Is possibly saving a penny on a gallon of gas worth risking millions of lives? I imagine some would say yes. Not to mention the gigantic waste of freshwater. Last I heard California is in extreme drought.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/05/fracking-water-america-drought-oil-gas
And I think it is poor planning to build on the hills of San Francisco but I’ll be expected to help bail them out when things eventually come tumbling down.
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