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 ...
Relieving the overstressed Erf in small doses should help minimize the possibility of The Big One.
Yup, venting off some gasses and relieving some pressure should help deter jellystone from going BOOM! :>)
What the scientific whores fail to recognize is by accepting federal funds and federal governance they are in the process of destroying their credibility.
No, fracking does not cause earthquakes. Down hole disposal of large quantities of wastewater pumped from fracked wells MAY cause small earthquakes if done improperly in unsuitable formations or in large quantities. We do not have that problem in SE New Mexico as the formations have permeability that allows injection with no earthquake consequences. In tight shale areas, other types of disposal/treatment/reuse must be considered to avoid this problem.
This is nothing more than the anti-fossil fuel, global warming, climate change fascists doing their “sky is falling” dance.
The Fracking ————. Is that the start of a new curs phrase?
To them, money is money. Declined to the point of agreeing to just about any agenda as long as the money is right.
Hmmm. CedarDave. Do I know you? Did you go to high school in Abq? Anyway, the NM geology is yugely diverse and can tolerate a lot of activity.
Many questions have been raised about hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as “fracking”—and USGS studies suggest that this process is only rarely the cause of felt earthquakes.
That is the only reference to "fracking" in the entire USGS paper!!
LOL! Sounds a lot like settled science then.
Seems to me this was the plot of a bad Christmas movie starring Jacklyn Smith that my kids liked when they were little.
No, I didn’t go to high school in NM. As far as earthquakes go, they are not unusual along the fault line known as the Rio Grande rift.
The left captured Meteorology, has it now captured Geology? They're trying.
Brian Whitman on a local radio show here today tried insinuating that fracking was the cause of earthquakes in Oklahoma. His co-worker who lived there said earthquakes were always happening there.
BTW the biggest earthquakes were the New Madrid, Missouri ones and that happened in 1811 and 1812
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%9312_New_Madrid_earthquakes
NW and SE New Mexico have been stable for years even though fracking has been going on for decades.
Well, I guess a “journalist” is much more informed about fracking than drilling engineers who have spent their careers fracking in Oklahoma. Fracking has been going on since the 1960’s, and now it is a problem?
Where is the Sweet Meteor of Death I was promised?
LOL! Okay. I have an old high school friend named Dave and he lives out in Cedar Crest so there was the thought.
Earthquakes are always happening here now. 5 years ago, we had almost zero. Now we have more than California. Over 500 last year. They are not caused by fracking, however. It is the wastewater injection wells that activated the fault line running through eastern OK. Work is being done to manage that better, and hopefully, they will calm back down.
The sky is not falling and very little damage has actually been done. One spring gust front causes more damage than all the earthquakes we have had combined. It is just scary for the more cajones impaired people. I will admit to not caring much for being thrown out of bed at 3:00 in the morning. Better that, than the tornado sirens going off.
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