Fracking Quakes are leading to Fracking Bans!
Nov 30, 2014 22:24:31 GMT -6
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Fracking is the practice of Hydraulic Fracturing and the industry is causing earthquakes. That is the growing consensus with even sources like the USGS weighing in.......
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Reno, Texas looks to be among the next communities to draw a line in the proverbial sand and say no more.
It makes it all the more interesting to see develop in Texas, as a state owing a good part of its history and prosperity to the Oil and Gas industry, but some Texans are serious on this.
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The article notes that the structure of the Texas Oil Industry is a complex thing and comes around to helping fund education, among other things. That certainly creates complications and something of a mess, but the health of people needs to come above going after oil and gas using THESE methods.
One doesn't have to be pro- or anti- "fossil fuels" or gas/oil to say that a process SO incredibly violent in it's application that it shatters solid rock, thousands of feet down and under incredible pressure, might very well be a problem here. Consider, the disposal injection wells which get rid of the millions of gallons of waste from fracking, CREATE THE ROOM for those MILLIONS of gallons of liquid that doesn't compress or reduce its mass under pressure. Think about that...and we need not wonder why we're getting quakes.
If this were being done on the surface, in anything like a similar way for outcome? I think the outcry would be as deafening as it would be global. For now, it's just headed into legislation and ultimately, the courts.
Within the central and eastern United States, the number of earthquakes has increased dramatically over the past few years. More than 300 earthquakes above a magnitude 3.0 occurred in the three years from 2010–2012, compared with an average rate of 21 events per year observed from 1967–2000. These earthquakes are fairly small — large enough to have been felt by many people, yet small enough to rarely have caused damage.
Reno, Texas looks to be among the next communities to draw a line in the proverbial sand and say no more.
A Texas hamlet shaken by its first recorded earthquake last year and hundreds since then is among communities now taking steps to challenge the oil and gas industry's traditional supremacy over the right to frack.
Reno Mayor Lyndamyrth Stokes said spooked residents started calling last November: "I heard a boom, then crack! The whole house shook. What was that?" one caller asked. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that Reno, a community about 50 miles west of Dallas, had its first earthquake.
Reno Mayor Lyndamyrth Stokes said spooked residents started calling last November: "I heard a boom, then crack! The whole house shook. What was that?" one caller asked. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that Reno, a community about 50 miles west of Dallas, had its first earthquake.
It makes it all the more interesting to see develop in Texas, as a state owing a good part of its history and prosperity to the Oil and Gas industry, but some Texans are serious on this.
Reno resident Barbara Brown shows sinkholes on her property and faint cracks on her front steps and above the door, which she blames on fracking. Brown and her family retreated to the Azle-Reno area from Houston in 2005, but are now considering moving somewhere without drilling.
"They're destroying our land, they're ruining our health," said Brown, 45, in a raspy voice she says is damaged by the fumes from fracking.
"They're destroying our land, they're ruining our health," said Brown, 45, in a raspy voice she says is damaged by the fumes from fracking.
The article notes that the structure of the Texas Oil Industry is a complex thing and comes around to helping fund education, among other things. That certainly creates complications and something of a mess, but the health of people needs to come above going after oil and gas using THESE methods.
One doesn't have to be pro- or anti- "fossil fuels" or gas/oil to say that a process SO incredibly violent in it's application that it shatters solid rock, thousands of feet down and under incredible pressure, might very well be a problem here. Consider, the disposal injection wells which get rid of the millions of gallons of waste from fracking, CREATE THE ROOM for those MILLIONS of gallons of liquid that doesn't compress or reduce its mass under pressure. Think about that...and we need not wonder why we're getting quakes.
If this were being done on the surface, in anything like a similar way for outcome? I think the outcry would be as deafening as it would be global. For now, it's just headed into legislation and ultimately, the courts.
