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USGS Confirms Oklahoma Quakes Are Due To Fracking
The debate about the cause of the exponential rise in the frequency of earthquakes in Oklahoma has really heated up in the last year, but as KFOR4 reports, The United States Geological Survey (USGS) appears to have put any doubt firmly to rest. In a strongly-worded press release, the USGS states, "...Large areas of the United States that used to experience few or no earthquakes have, in recent years, experienced a remarkable increase in earthquake activity.. This rise in seismic activity, especially in the central United States, is not the result of natural processes... Instead, the increased seismicity is due to fluid injection associated with new technologies that enable the extraction of oil and gas from previously unproductive reservoirs." For some, that could end the debate; but Kim Hatfield, with the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association, is not so sure, "I don’t think it’s particularly helpful because basically, it says we’ve come to a conclusion, but we don’t have the science to back it up."
Full USGS Statement: Coping with Earthquakes Induced by Fluid Injection
A paper published today in Science provides a case for increasing transparency and data collection to enable strategies for mitigating the effects of human-induced earthquakes caused by wastewater injection associated with oil and gas production in the United States. The paper is the result of a series of workshops led by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the University of Colorado, Oklahoma Geological Survey and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, suggests that it is possible to reduce the hazard of induced seismicity through management of injection activities.
Large areas of the United States that used to experience few or no earthquakes have, in recent years, experienced a remarkable increase in earthquake activity that has caused considerable public concern as well as damage to structures. This rise in seismic activity, especially in the central United States, is not the result of natural processes.
Instead, the increased seismicity is due to fluid injection associated with new technologies that enable the extraction of oil and gas from previously unproductive reservoirs. These modern extraction techniques result in large quantities of wastewater produced along with the oil and gas. The disposal of this wastewater by deep injection occasionally results in earthquakes that are large enough to be felt, and sometimes damaging. Deep injection of wastewater is the primary cause of the dramatic rise in detected earthquakes and the corresponding increase in seismic hazard in the central U.S.
“The science of induced earthquakes is ready for application, and a main goal of our study was to motivate more cooperation among the stakeholders — including the energy resources industry, government agencies, the earth science community, and the public at large — for the common purpose of reducing the consequences of earthquakes induced by fluid injection,” said coauthor Dr. William Ellsworth, a USGS geophysicist.
The USGS is currently collaborating with interested stakeholders to develop a hazard model for induced earthquakes in the U.S. that can be updated frequently in response to changing trends in energy production.
“In addition to determining the hazard from induced earthquakes, there are other questions that need to be answered in the course of coping with fluid-induced seismicity,” said lead author of the study, USGS geophysicist Dr. Art McGarr. “In contrast to natural earthquake hazard, over which humans have no control, the hazard from induced seismicity can be reduced. Improved seismic networks and public access to fluid injection data will allow us to detect induced earthquake problems at an early stage, when seismic events are typically very small, so as to avoid larger and potentially more damaging earthquakes later on.”
“It is important that all information of this sort be publicly accessible, because only in this way can it be used to provide the timely guidance needed to reduce the hazard and consequences of induced earthquakes,” said USGS hydrologist and co-author of the paper, Dr. Barbara Bekins.
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But, as KFOR4 reports, Kim Hatfield, with the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association, says not so fast...
“I don’t think it’s particularly helpful because basically, it says we’ve come to a conclusion, but we don’t have the science to back it up,” Hatfield said. “Oklahoma has been very geologically active over time, and that’s one of the reasons we have so many oil and gas traps.”
While USGS calls for transparency in collecting data, Hatfield says that’s nothing new.
“You know, this is what we’ve been doing for the last year and a half. We were proactive in this. We were the ones who came forward and said ‘Listen, we want to work with the regulators, with the Geological Survey.'”
Matt Skinner, with the Corporation Commission, said, “This is more of a policy paper saying, you need to respond to it. You know, there has to be some kind of concerted effort.”
He says there are maps that show a growth in technology that has helped develop new guidelines.
“Even if you’re in an earthquake, according to the records we have, if you’re within three miles of a stressed fault, you’re only chance to put a disposal well there is to file for a yellow light permit,” Skinner said.
He says right now, there are about 80 applications that may not be approved.
Both sides of the issue say they’re looking to work together to find more answers.
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While correlation is not causation - perhaps the 1000 or more words of the paper are better summed up in one chart...
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Another Conspiracy Theory becomes Conspiracy Fact
There are no "Conspiracy Theories"
PS And the last 2 days and nights out here, they've been spraying like there's no manana
Time for the frackers to pay for earthquake insurance cost for everyone past and future.
Laughly stupid. Much like the US Army Corps of Engineers declaring drainage ditches are "Waters of the US" or global warming is "real". I want to see any boat or ship move up the ditches or once the data modification has been corrected if globull warming is real.
No agenda by the administration to play into the narrative that fracking is evil Maybe they should do a documentary to "prove" it.... oh yeah, that has already been done and shown to be an error-filled film.
Politics breeds junk science.
The converse is also true.
Politics breeds bad choices.
Fracking fluid is mostly Polyethylene Glycol, a harmless food additive, and some Bentonite clay. The EPA won't let them dump used fluid into sewers or out on the ground ( both options are safe ), so the only way they can get rid of the stuff legally is to pump it into old wells.
Pumping large quantities of liquid into old oil wells causes earthquakes.
Humans cause forest fires and avalanches in the hope of preventing larger, more destructive ones later. Why should earthquakes be any different? I'll be Japan would have preferred 10 magnitude 8 quakes to have been caused by fracking, but which didn't breach Fukushima's tsunami wall, rather than a single magnitude 9 which did.
Anyone that understands plate tectonics, realizes that if fracking is indeed causing quakes, it is a good thing.
"USGS Confirms Oklahoma Quakes Are Due To Fracking"
How fucking ridiculous....Zerohege should be asahamed over ths idiotic lie.....
Any branch of government controled by Obama is a nest of lying assholes...
Obama's NASA just got caught lying to promote the democrat's man made gobal warming lie....
Oh, FRACK.
You mean, the fracking FRACKERS are FRAKCING the planet? Or, is this fracking problem limited to fracking Oklahoma?
I fracking KNEW IT...
I've been watching USGOV BIS OPS site, and haven't seen the USGS ordering any machine guns or bullet-proof vests (like everyone else is doing, including the USDA https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=9dfebeda308f15074b832bcf... , https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=9fc3a01217d03b0354e... ).
As a 'constitutional lawyer', Soetoro probably doesn't give a shit about geological surveys (the only surveys he gives a shit about have to do with his 'popularity rating').
This article is so typical for our times in that it highlights a "debate," as if somehow what a for-profit industry spokesperson says is somehow equivalent to a scientific peer-reviewed publication in one of the world's top journals.
If one want to know the truth, there is no debate needed here. Nature doesn't lie. Competent people observe the data; it is what it is, whether or not the conclusons are potentially harmful to profits or a political view.
This is like the "debate" between evolution and "intelligent design." One is right but inconvenient for a group of people, so that group chooses to deny the obvious. There is no real equivalency there, or here.
I am soooo tired of seing scientific knowledge completely subjugated by this false "debate" dichotomy. Just because some idiot says herbs and minerals cure cancer, or vaccines are bad, or high amounts of saturated fat from animal sources are good for you, doesn't make any of those things any more true. It seems as if the Internet has only made this phenomenon worse. People will say any horrid shit to get clicks, and then people who have a certain view and don't really care if the truth isn't concordant with that can just go to their favorite websites like Weston A. Price Foundation and create a whole community full of misinformed idiots.
Why not read some science books and some Chomsky and some NY Times and some Breitbart and ZH and use your actually beautiful human brain to decde what you think is true? So many people still live life as if they need to believe everything their tribe does or else they are afraid they'll be kicked out of it.
Having been on both ends of the peer review process a few times, there are people involved in that process - so it can be just as flawed, politically motivated and petty as any other human endeavor.
Total transformation.....we will turn the government into a political weapon of mass destruction.
NASA....check
EPA....check
NEA.....check
IRS.....check
DHS.....check
USGS....check
So many people still live life as if they need to believe everything their tribe does or else they are afraid they'll be kicked out of it.
Dude, that's you.
So basically the EPA is causing earthquakes. Works for me.
Fracking fluid is mostly water. The purpose of the gel is simply to support the propant in the fluid.
Let's all look at what chemicals really ARE used, Mr. 'Exxon-Mobil':
http://fracfocus.org/chemical-use/what-chemicals-are-used
READ THE FUCKING LIST, and tell everyone that it's SAFE TO DRINK.
I wonder which chemical this asshole is calling a 'gel'.
YES, YOU, you corporate shill ASSHOLE (wrs1).
+1
In-correct........
Completion fluids or as you call them, fracking fluids, are primarily water based. At times depending on the prog, (the engineered diagram) we will weight water up to 9.7 pounds per gallon with sodium, (rock salt) mixed. This allows the fluid to carry the Frac sand to the zone. Potash is also used to weight the water in certain areas.
The vast majority of fracs are straight water on typical horizontals though. The majority of returned fluid from a flowed well is salt water, thus why sodium is used for the proponent. And no, it's not dumped in the sewer, lol. It's returned through a injection well, Back to a zone were the fluid is already high salt content.
Sure be nice if accurate information would be circulated on how the process is performed.
I lived in Oklahoma for awhile and quakes were rather frequent, albeit rather small. These are normally stable areas, historically.
I am a global warming skeptic, especially on the government "solutions" side and generally a pro-industry, libertarian type right-winger. However, I believe there could be a connection. My background is engineering but not geo-engineering or oil. It makes sense to me that there could be a connection. Without details like scale and pressures and strata data it still seems possible that splitting rock/soil and both the extraction and injection of varioius fluids and gasses will naturally change both the compressional forces as well as the frictional properties over fairly large areas. Given that this is not solid bedrock, it makes sense that rock and soil might shift.
However, in theory this may well be a good thing. It is sort of like relieving the pent up pressures and having five class 3 quakes rather than a 7 or 8 one day. I would also guess that the really really large quakes eminate from much farther down in the plates rather than the rather surface operations.
The problem for me is that if you give the lefties and enviro-weenies even an inch, they will come back with a mile high pile of new regs and government powers. Their goal is the elimination of any endeavor that is not heavily taxed and state controlled.
From the article:
"I don’t think it’s particularly helpful because basically, it says we’ve come to a conclusion, but we don’t have the science to back it up."
Yes it does...
..Global (AGW) Warming = Man Made Lies
Just like all this fracking BS !
only has to be navigable one day a year.... Good sized spring rain makes a lot of things "Waters of the US"..
Bob, you accept the headline "USGS Confirms...." without question - it comes from the government, remember? - but you have a problem with the State Department confirming details in the Ukrainian narrative.
"The government is full of shit" or "The government tells the truth!" - which is it, you silly goose?
Weaponize it.
Let's see.
Inject poisonous chemicals with any potable groundwater left, in order to make a quick buck, and in the process cause the destabilization of the Earth's crust in areas where the process is performed, all in the name of Mammon. the ground destabilizes under the people's feet, and they are forced to flee to the pre-planned agenda 21 'habitats'; and the water is no longer drinkable (and will poison the crops that people eat). MORE for the people doing the fracking (and they don't give a shit as mass starvation, earthquakes, and drought caused by the poisoning of the water supply start to cause death on a massive scale).
Yeah, it looks like it might all ready BE weaponized.
I think the Saudi's just did...
The problem is, as usual, the banking system. The angloamerican banking system has its tentacles in almost every country on earth. Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and a couple of others are exceptions. All of them are reflexively considered enemies by nearly everyone in the western world, with few stopping to ask if they're really enemies or not. That's the power of propaganda.
Gun rights, gay rights, free speech, internet regulation, etc etc are all distractions. They keep us riled up and set against each other on issues like these, so as to distract us from our real enemies and real problems. The bill of rights and constitution died a long time ago. The republic is dead.
The enemy we face has the power to create money. That is the only power worth having. Even if you were the supreme commander of all of earth's armed forces, how would you pay the troops? By using money the banking cartel creates. Bullets and bombs are nothing.
Try running a civilization without money. Can't be done. Anything that involves people living in cities requires a monetary system. Sure, in times past the peasants would barter goods instead of using money, but at the state level some type of currency is required. Taxes are collected in money. Troops are paid in money.
Money doesn't exist in a vacuum. It has to be created by someone. That someone has the supreme power. Money is the lifeblood of civilization. If you were bleeding to death and I had the ability to give you a massive blood transfusion, would you not agree I have the power to decide whether you live or die?
That is the power that the banks have over civilization. If they wanted, they could destroy all the money in existence, and we'd be back to hunting and gathering within a year.
Until the power to create money is taken from the banks and returned to the people, where it rightfully belongs, the rest of our rights will continue to erode. We may win a small victory here and there, but our enemy can create an infinite amount of money to buy whatever it wants. The overall trend is down and will be as long as the status quo remains.
Your post, jmo, seems a bit off topic, however, please you aren't saying the root of all evil is money are you?
Fiat money is the root of all evil.
Gold and silver are simply fungible commodities that are very useful as non-fiat money.
Maybe the love of fiat money? But seriously, that I can wholeheartedly concur.
Please stop with the banking conspiracy stuff for just one damned thread.
It is kicking up a blizzard here. I think maybe bankers are behind it.
Upton Sinclair
Light Your Water On Fire from Gas Drilling, Frackinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LBjSXWQRV8
Besides thousand of earthquakes a year are great if you like your martinis shaken, not stirred.
Well, Who pays their salary? USGS also pushes the Global warming meme. Just sayin,
Global Warming May Have Severe Consequences for Rare Haleakala Silverswords
Released: 1/15/2013 1:30:00 PM
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3490#.VOj9aS7jUkQ
Prevaracations and lies by omission, just like global anthropological climate change. It's easier to believe a lie than to seek the truth...
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/09/new-plan-from-gasland-ii-the-fauce...
It's always been possible to do that in certain areas.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/19050
This. If you live in an oil producing area, you will always have volatile petroleum fractions in the groundwater.
Hell, there are sidewalks in Lompoc CA that have no smoking warning signs on them, as they periodically burst into flames when accumulated light fractions and a lit cigarrette coincide.
This reads like the Old Testament. Where's the science? Wait until the Yellowstone caldera blows - they'll blame it on fracking and overfed camp bears.
Ah, get the fuck out of here... as if the "shale boom" needed any more reason to collapse anyways, considering it requires $85+ a barrel in order to make a profit. Let the shit collapse already and let some real price discovery into the market. Hell, bomb OPEC if they start manipulating prices for all I care. But propping up a dying industry that is unprofitable is basically everything wrong with what is going on in this country.
I'm not disputing the findings. There may be a postive side to this. Lots of small earthquakes alleviate pressure, so that you don't have a huge build up to a big one. The area has had really major quakes in the past before the fracking started. I guess better to have lots of minor small ones, less or no damage? Watch this lead to a new science where they use the process to "control" earthquakes. Except it will not be a beneficial side effect that costs nothing, but rather another big government tax and spend project.
You should probably inject some liquid into the earth underneath your house as a preventative measure.
Exactly. Whether the earthquakes are caused by fracking or not, it's irrelevant. They are small and cause no damage. Earthquakes are a normal part of life all over the world. This is a distraction.
It's the same story with global warming. Whether or not it's caused by mankind is irrelevant. It's undisputed that the earth getting warmer has more benefits than costs.
Having your house shake daily, with cumulative damage, is not a distraction.
That isn't the nature of the seismic activity in OK.
If the EPA would allow the proper disposal of fracking waste liquid, they wouldn't have to pump it into the ground and cause these earthquakes.
Can you explain yourself please?
Do you live there? I do.
It is when you live in Jew York and have some line running right under your apartment
seems the quality of the seismic detection equipment went up a bit in 2011----or the strengh of the quakes logged started to include many little ones not logged before----I call bull shit on this story.
There are multiple +3.0 quakes almost daily. The biggest quake was a couple on months ago and was 4.8. These are not minor small quakes.
USGS: Each year the southern California area has about 10,000 earthquakes. Most of them are so small that they are not felt. Only several hundred are greater than magnitude 3.0, and only about 15-20 are greater than magnitude 4.0. If there is a large earthquake, however, the aftershock sequence will produce many more earthquakes of all magnitudes for many months.
I'm telling you right now, if there was a 4.0 earthquake, only bored people notice. It's a non-event.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php
13,000 4.0-4.9 earthquakes per year
130,000 3.0-3.9 earthquakes per year
This is the same panic people were talking about SARS, H1N1, Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Ebola, etc. Big deal about nothing.
Thank you
This isn't fucking panic, it's causing damage over time. And if it gets in the water supply, look out.
I'm telling you right now, if there was a 4.0 earthquake, only bored people notice. It's a non-event.
The LA Times reports just about every earthquake over 2.0.
Part of the problem in the midwest is that are felt over a much wider area with a stronger intensity than in California. I lived in northern California and Southern California for years. I've felt more quakes in 30 days here than I did in years there, with the exception of the Loma Prieta and Northridge after shocks.
They report the UV Index, sunset and sunrise, and even the mold count.
Those aint quakes, it's the airconditioning of the Eccles building.
What would have been the frequency of earthquakes during the formation of the Rocky Mountains? Or the Ozarks in fact. I'd believe this conclusion as much as I believed NOAA/NASA/UN/SCOTUS telling me my breath is a pollutant causing the World to have a "fever."
Here;s the frequency in the last seven days. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#{%22feed%22%3A%227day_m25%22%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22autoUpdate%22%3Atrue%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3Atrue%2C%22timeZone%22%3A%22local%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B60%2C-150%5D%2C%5B10%2C-50%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A{%22plates%22%3Atrue}%2C%22viewModes%22%3A{%22map%22%3Atrue%2C%22list%22%3Afalse%2C%22settings%22%3Atrue%2C%22help%22%3Afalse}}
Jebus.
Learn to use tinyurl dot com.
beelzebub, hone your copy and paste skills
http://tinyurl.com/py36fhj
When there's no money anymoar in American citizens, they'll try to suck it out of rocks. Now eat your KFC Burger. But don't forget to order some fresh frack water, fourth refill for free.
Or do you think it's healthy or "normal" to squeeze energy out of rocks to extend and pretend? With poison? Between a rock & a hard place dude.
Is it healthy to squeeze atoms together and cause a nuclear reaction in a TVA power plant? Anyway, since fossil fuels are being attacked with all manner of legal perversion, by the US Gov't and and all their NGO confederates for ideological reasons, I'm pretty suspect of anything coming from a questionable source such as the US Government, especially during the past 20 years. We lived in the middle of the Barnett Play for 10 years, having previously known next to nothing about the industry, and I'll cast my lot with the O & G's, not the Sierra Club and the EPA ect.
It was "global cooling" before it became "global warming" before it became "climate change".
And, as with Global Warming® (since rebranded Climate Change®, since rebranded CO2 Pollution®, since rebranded Climate Disruption®), the "SOLUTION" that will "fix" this "problem," announced by a government agency, is higher taxes and more government control over people's lives!
Well... look at that.
Leftist math.
Higher taxes=Lower temperatures.
It's a basic mantra we all need to learn.
USA uses word " Conspiracy" or "Conspiracy Theory" to a real truth story. PERIOD
Go home Russki
It's never been easier to dismiss a federal conclusion about anything, anywhere...or a study funded by federal largess about anything, anywhere....Prove it federal employee bloodsuckers.
Gentlemen, start your lawsuits...
No way is this true
Everyone knows mankind cannot possibly be more destructive to the environment than mother nature
Global warming is a myth
And if it wasn't, it still ain't our fault
Global warming is bullshit, hence the reason they changed it to "climate change." If the earth were really getting warmer they would not have had to do this. But for the last 15 years or so the earth has been getting colder, hence, these fuckers are lying through their teeth in order to make profits off of Tesla and all this other "green" bullshit. BUT, I agree that humans are the most destructive species on the planet. Nature just manages itself without us in the way. There is absolutely no way that the Chinese Mitten Crab would be able to infest the waters of the east coast of the U.S. without human help. They consume all of the prey of Chesapeke Bay crabs and kill off the natural species that lives there. Why should you care? Well, hell, I as anyone else, loves some good shellfish dinners, but with these invasive species consuming all the food of the crabs that we eat, the industry is on death row. This hurts the economy of Chesapeke Bay crabbers and more importantly, makes my crab dinner more expensive, maybe impossible at some point. So say what you will about the free market, the fact that we import all our shit from China is killing the local wildlife and has some serious affects on our economy.
Blue crab--they've been having a rough time --from VA dredging to James river polution--now the invasive species thing. I remember 13 inch steamed blue crabs in Baltimore---miss those feasts
Man I'm not from Maryland but I remember netting a few dozen crabs in the creek where my family lives on Long Island... I'm pretty sure there is no meat that tastes better than some fresh broiled crab right out of the water...
Here "they" are using the term "climate change" 25 years ago in a documentary called After The WARMING. I hope you notice that this was produced 15 years before An Inconvenient Truth.
You would have to click this link and invest 90 seconds to see this evidence:
ATW
There never has been any change. "They" are still talking about AGW. Where did you ever get the idea that "they" changed it, hmmm?
Here "they" are using the term "ominous signs" regarding the global cooling that, in 1975, was going to kill us all - unless the government raised taxes and took action (real scarey stuff, isn't it?). The government paid "scientists" wanted the government to set off nuclear bombs in the arctic to melt the arctic ice cap, fixing this "problem."
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
Of course, 39 years later, Newsweek recants the "scientific" article as the pressure from the Global Warmist religious fanatics became too great.
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The real problem with fracking is not small earthquakes, it is the wholesale destruction of potable water with super toxic chemicals.
I think you need to read up on the practice a little--maybe check out some of those claims you've been reading and taking at face value---it might surprise you.
for example fracking occurs with in five feet of the well bore--- duh? no really? Yep thats it-- and only certain types of chemicals are used in lime stone (no acid) cause it plugs the channel. It's also used to repair wells.
Potable water contamination usually comes from improper practice like not cementing the well correctly or fracking to close to the surface--only place that has occurd is in the indian lands where the shale was 500 ft from the surface. Not done for many years now.
I could agree more. YouTube is pretty hard to search, easier for them just to drink the kook aid.
http://youtu.be/0WUmFWy8wVA
The USGS hasn't confirmed shit. By now if I had only DC's word to take for it I wouldn't believe the sun would rise tomorrow.
"It's only a tiny leak,' the PM of Japan told his peeples.
Disposing of wastewater is NOT fracking.
Correct and its been going on for years by industry as well as local gov'ts to get rid of waste water---this whole thing is Green Peace Agenda 21---and its about shutting down the US -----
A committee I sit on had some red flaggers bring a "ban fracking" resolution for a rubber stamp. Interestingly the "ban fracking" language was interspaced with other stuff like--also any and all extraction of minerals and other resources---- The ban was for every type of industrial activity peoriod----these assholes are insane ---its a religion I tell ya--as bad as Marx
Great post. I'd add that it is Marxism, using envirnmentalism as their mechanism of choice.
another statistical evidence statistical model = truth which passes as science for all the passed through students - good thing the government is there to hire them
Statistically you are right... and wrong.
If it's not fracking, it's the apocalypse.
The fracking earthquake oil index. Some guys with dresses, beards and mothers with mustaches watching that index.
Ha ha, typical Obama generation science driven by political agenda. Up and until the science behind the rhetoric is sliced and diced, it means nothing, especially coming from an organization as connected to government as the USGS. The USGS may in the end be correct; but it may in the end be completely wrong. Science usually wins, so it'll be interesting to see what happens.
My biased guess is that it will be much like Global Warming, which is falling apart little by little because the science is just that bad; simply because it was politically driven in the first place. Oops ... did I say global warming ... I meant Climate Change. What's that you say? It's not climate change, it's ACD. Oh my, didn't know I was so behind the times.
These modern extraction techniques result in large quantities of wastewater produced along with the oil and gas. The disposal of this wastewater by deep injection occasionally results in earthquakes that are large enough to be felt, and sometimes damaging. Deep injection of wastewater is the primary cause of the dramatic rise in detected earthquakes and the corresponding increase in seismic hazard in the central U.S....
More rubber chicken post hoc logic here.
"USGS Confirms...."
Uh-huh. Why didn't we get the headline "US State Department Confirms...." on the US's Ukrainian claims?
Obviously, because Zero Hedge is content to swallow the official story line when it fits the Zero Hedge narrative, but not when it contradicts it.
Raining right now up here in Anchorage..Snow shovels are selling for half price at Home Depot..A couple hundred miles away,in Homer,people are mowing there lawns in shorts,and T-shirts..No,there's nothing unusual going on here,it's just that springtime starts in February now,instead of in May..
And a few years ago Alaska had a really bad winter. It is the weather.
Only Zero Hedgers understand that cheap oil is bad, very bad. Exxon Mobil needs a special pump selling gas at $5/gallon for these imbeciles.
government says fluids injected at 5000 ft will migrate down 30,000 to 100,000 ft and cause earthquakes, but nuclear waste materials can be stored in a pit lined with a few dozen feet of clay, and that waste will not migrate down 150 ft to local water tables. Do I have that right?
Rulison, Colorado, which had a 40-kiloton nuclear test project in the United States on September 10, 1969, for fracking, should by this theroy now be home of the new San Andreas fault line!?! Or maybe the Nevada test site that has had littlerly hundreds of underground nuclear test should have cracked the earth in two? But I'm sure that "demolition charge" they are using in fracking is much worse! Aaaagh!
WTF? - from a 2014 report released by the Oklahoma Geologic Survey - in cooperation with the USGS --
"Yet the report adds that "the majority, but not all, of the recent earthquakes appear to be the result of natural stresses, since they are consistent with the regional Oklahoma natural stress field."
One other thing that tends to happen with government reports that claim certain numbers (of quakes, of homeless, of Russian tanks in Ukraine, etc) is that the government starts 'looking' for numbers to support its position. So did the number of earthquakes really increase that much, or did the government suddenly increase the number of quake monitoring stations in Oklahoma starting on 2009?
as if anyone with an IQ larger than their hat size would believe anything this regime puts out as "truth"...
Global warming truthiness
Eco-Terrorism at it's finest !
Creating Malthusian Catastrophies like no one else can...
Greed for the win !
All nonsense. I don't see any proof, just a statement. And no mention of the huge fault recently discovered in north Texas.
Define "north Texas"? Panhandle or just south of the Red River.
I used to live near a quary. They blasted all the time and caused earthquakes. I didn't die and it didn't make the news.
Well, I can tell you from experience what's going on in OK isn't normal. And you can hear them coming.