Giant 'crack' in earth appears in Wyoming
Oct 29, 2015 18:44:02 GMT -6
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Post by Nugget on Oct 29, 2015 18:44:02 GMT -6
Two hunters discovered this new crack in the earth over the weekend.It's estimated to be 750 yards long 50 yards wide. An opinion by a local engineer was:
An engineer from Riverton, WY came out to shed a little light on this giant crack in the earth. Apparently, a wet spring lubricated across a cap rock. Then, a small spring on either side caused the bottom to slide out. He estimated 15 to 20 million yards of movement.
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What I find curious is how little coverage things like this seem to get, except on social media. The number of sinkholes appearing in the US and around the world seems to be increasing in frequency.
With tons of money being thrown into investigating every slight difference that occurs in the US, where's the funding for what's going on to the earth itself? In my mind, it's because the answer is already known, and the public outcry would affect too many bank accounts of the wealthy.
My gut tells me there is a direct link to fracking and drilling. They have exploited the earth to the point of serious consequences, and those consequences will be hidden from the public as long as possible...or at least until they convince Alaska to allow more access to exploitation.
On Wyoming and fracking:
Thanks to a drilling boom, air quality on the plains of Wyoming is now worse than the car-choked megalopolis of Los Angeles. In the drilling rig-studded Upper Green River Basin, levels of ozone—the main component of smog - have reached 124 parts per billion—well over the federal safety standard and worse than the worst day in Los Angeles in 2010. There are some bright spots, though: in 2010, the Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission passed some of the strongest rules in the country requiring oil and gas companies to disclose the secret chemicals they use in fracking—a big step forward for the state and leading the way for reform at the national level.
The link has a map of some of the high profile incidents ("fraccidents") related to the country's gas drilling boom that have already occurred in and around Wyoming, and the rest of the US.
