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Title: Did Fracking Cause the Virginia Earthquake?
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OpEd News
URL Source: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Di ... tuart-Jeanne-B-110823-993.html
Published: Aug 23, 2011
Author: Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
Post Date: 2011-08-26 08:04:31 by lucysmom
Keywords: None
Views: 11953
Comments: 31
Earthquakes in the nation's capitol are as rare as hen's teeth. The epicenter of Tuesday's quake was in Mineral, Virginia, which is located on three very quiet fault lines. The occurrence of yet another freak earthquake in an unusual location is leading many anti-fracking activists (including me -- they have just started fracking in Stratford, which is 40 minutes from New Plymouth) to wonder whether "fracking" in nearby West Virginia may be responsible.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the process of initiating and subsequently propagating a fracture in a rock layer, employing the pressure of a fluid as the source of energy. The fracturing is done from a wellbore drilled into reservoir rock formations, in order to increase the extraction rates and ultimate recovery of oil and natural gas and coal seam gas.
How Fracking Causes Earthquakes
According to geologists, it isn't the fracking itself that is linked to earthquakes, but the re-injection of waste salt water (as much as 3 million gallons per well) deep into rock beds.
Braxton County West Virginia (160 miles from Mineral) has experienced a rash of freak earthquakes (eight in 2010) since fracking operations started there several years ago. According to geologists fracking also caused an outbreak of thousands of minor earthquakes in Arkansas (as many as two dozen in a single day). It's also linked to freak earthquakes in Texas, western New York, Oklahoma and Blackpool, England (which had never recorded an earthquake before).
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#1. To: Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Capitalist Eric, mininggold (#0)
Industry scientists deny the link to earthquakes, arguing that energy companies have been fracking for nearly sixty years.
How much credibility do industry scientists have?
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
#2. To: lucysmom (#0)
...and Blackpool, England (which had never recorded an earthquake before).
Sounds plausible that fracking may contribute to earthquake conditions.
#3. To: lucysmom (#1)
How much credibility do industry scientists have?
How much do the eco-moonbats have? They've already been caught lying about Global Warming.
#4. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
Sounds plausible
Why would anybody's opinion who'd been chumped by Todd have any credibility? You thought it was plausible that he would pay you that money back too.
#5. To: Happy Quanzaa (#4)
You'll have to pardon my good human nature.
#6. To: lucysmom (#1)
How much credibility do industry scientists have?
I don't know. Maybe you should turn your lights an AC off. Eat some pigeons.
#7. To: Fred Mertz (#5)
There is a lot of data in HQ's comment that you are overlooking, Fred.
#8. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
Sounds plausible that fracking may contribute to earthquake conditions.
At least worth investigating.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
#9. To: Happy Quanzaa (#3)
They've already been caught lying about Global Warming.
Global warming is a fact, the cause may be in dispute.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
#10. To: A K A Stone (#6)
Eat some pigeons.
?
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
#11. To: lucysmom (#0)
No. Colorado went off as well.
It's the New Madrid.
The New Madrid is an expanding fault. Pushing both sides out.
Watch the St Lawrence at Ohio now. down to Cincinnati.
#12. To: mcgowanjm (#11)
It's the New Madrid.
It could well be both.
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/top-5-ways-that/
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
#13. To: lucysmom (#12)
Interesting article and information in your link. Thanks.
#14. To: lucysmom (#12)
It could well be both.www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/top-5-ways-that/
yes. But the New Madrid is way overdue.
And fracking at most would be like the actual piece of straw....;}
The nukes around the MS River should be shut down now.
In geological terms, we should be acting like the gorillas at the DC Zoo and climbing the trees....8D
#15. To: mcgowanjm (#11)
Watch the St Lawrence at Ohio now. down to Cincinnati.
Yikes! That's not too far from me...~120 miles.
#16. To: lucysmom (#1)
How much credibility do industry scientists have?
The relevant question is whether their claim that fracking has been going on in the Uninted States for almost sixty years without consequential seismic activity is true or not.
#17. To: lucysmom, *Extended Clip Progressives* (#1)
anti-fracking activists (including me --How much credibility do industry scientists have?
A hell of a lot more than anti-fracking activists. At least the discredited global warming moonbats have found a new fracking hobby. Maybe it will keep them out of the flash mob scene.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#18. To: Fred Mertz (#15)
That's not too far from me...~120 miles.
And that's about the width of the 'fault'.
Margin of error.
;}
Memphis to Little Rock where I'm from.
#19. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
Sounds plausible
Firecrackers cause tornados too !
Your 5th grade school yard mind peeked out pretty early !
Now you're in a lifetime of kindergarten !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons are for girlie boys !
#20. To: lucysmom (#1)
How much credibility do industry scientists have?
Not much. Have you seen Gasland?
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#21. To: Thunderbird (#16)
The relevant question is whether their claim that fracking has been going on in the Uninted States for almost sixty years without consequential seismic activity is true or not.
The next relevant question might be, have there been any recent changes in how fracking is done?
The answer is there for those who read.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
#22. To: nolu chan (#20)
Not much. Have you seen Gasland?
No. The flaming tap water demo is pretty darn impressive.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
#23. To: lucysmom (#22)
No. The flaming tap water demo is pretty darn impressive.
But the energy companies have 'experts' that say that's not a problem. Since you aren't an expert you need to accept their superior wisdom and knowledge, and forget any common sense that says flammable water is bad for you.
#24. To: mininggold, lucysmom (#23)
forget any common sense that says flammable water is bad for you.
They are just lucky the big oil doesn't call it an energy drink and charge for the service.
#25. To: nolu chan (#24)
They are just lucky the big oil doesn't call it an energy drink and charge for the service.
Hmm - I wonder if it could be burned in winter for heat.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
#26. To: mininggold (#23)
Since you aren't an expert you need to accept their superior wisdom and knowledge, and forget any common sense that says flammable water is bad for you.
That's what any real conservative would do.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
#27. To: lucysmom (#25)
Hmm - I wonder if it could be burned in winter for heat.
Certainly it can be split off and stored in a tank for use in a properly engineered heating system.
#28. To: lucysidiotmommmy, Happy Quanzaa (#9)
Global warming is a fact, the cause may be in dispute.
HOLY SHIT!
lucysidiotmommy actually gets something CORRECT!
Of course then she gets it WRONG about how it "may be" "in dispute".
Hey IDIOT, it, (anthropomorphic global warming), CERTAINLY IS in dispute.
Because it's 100% BULLSHIT.
IDIOT.
libTURD SCUM.
SCUM
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#29. To: lucysidiotmommy, whinyOLD (#26)
That's what any real conservative would do.
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What the F would you two gibbering libTURD whores know about being a "real conservative"?
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The answer is NOTHING.
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You two gibbering libTURD whores really are too stoooooopid to breathe.
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idiots
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#30. To: lucysmom (#21)
The answer is there for those who read.
So you're suggesting that folks who disagree with your unsupported premise that fracking caused the WDC eathquake need to 'read up' on the subject?
Why don't you quote a couple of relevant paragraghs and supply a link?
#31. To: Thunderbird (#30)
So you're suggesting that folks who disagree with your unsupported premise that fracking caused the WDC eathquake need to 'read up' on the subject?Why don't you quote a couple of relevant paragraghs and supply a link?
I did supply a link.
Here's a revevant quote for you from Wikipedia:
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports that "Earthquakes induced by human activity have been documented in a few locations" in the United States, Japan, and Canada; "the cause was injection of fluids into deep wells for waste disposal and secondary recovery of oil, and the use of reservoirs for water supplies."[34][35] Most of these earthquakes were minor, although an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 in 1967, near Denver, Colorado, "resulted from fluid injection at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal." Injection had been discontinued in the year prior to the earthquake "once the link between the fluid injection and the earlier series of earthquakes was established."
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
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