-
How a fracking well swallowed my Pennsylvania hometown
Just over the wooded hill is a forest filled with oak and pine, littered with massive stumps, weed-covered strip mines, and dynamite shacks, where the mouth of a shuttered coal mine shaft beckoned me as a child. Buzzfeed, international. Apr 17 2016
https://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/dubois-booms-and-busts
Continue reading -
Fracking wells released over 5 billion pounds of methane in one year
Being in close proximity to fracking operations could screw up your sexual health, cause developmental defects and cancer, induce seismic activity around you, and the list goes on. Grist. Apr 16 2016
Fracking wells released over 5 billion pounds of methane in one year
Continue reading -
Regulators allow Repsol to resume fracking after Alberta quake
Regulators have given Repsol Oil and Gas Canada the green light to resume hydraulic fracking at a remote well in Alberta nearly three months after the region was rocked by an earthquake linked to the fracking, the company said on Thursday. Reuters. Apr 08 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-repsol-alberta-fracking-idUSKCN0X42RZ
Continue reading -
Oklahoma is now as earthquake-prone as California thanks to oil and gas drilling
Homeowners in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas now stand as great a chance of suffering earthquake damage in the coming year as do residents of more well-known earthquake states like California. Mashable. Apr 05 2016
http://mashable.com/2016/04/04/manmade-earthquakes-oklahoma/#6T4Av_mYG5q2
Continue reading -
Study confirms link between fracking, earthquakes in Western Canada
New research has confirmed the link between fracking in the oil and gas fields of Western Canada and flurries of earthquakes that have been shaking the region.
The Globe and Mail, Mar. 29, 2016
Continue reading -
USGS revises seismic risk map to include quakes caused by humans
Earthquakes caused by human activity will now be included in the U.S. Geological Survey’s seismic risk maps, the agency said on Monday. Reuters. Mar 29 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usgs-quakes-idUSKCN0WU1GL
Continue reading -
Oklahoma puts limits on oil and gas wells to fight quakes
Facing a six-year barrage of increasingly large earthquakes, Oklahoma regulators are ordering the state’s powerful oil-and-gas industry to cut back the underground disposal of industry wastes that have caused the tremors across the state. New York Times. Mar 08 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/us/oklahoma-earthquakes-oil-gas-wells.html?_r=0
Continue reading -
Oklahoma takes action on fracking-related earthquakes — but too late, critics say
In 2009, there were 20 quakes of magnitude 3.0 or higher, according to the United States Geological Survey. Last year, there were 890. In 2009, no quake measured 4.0 or greater. Last year, 30 did. Los Angeles Times. Mar 02, William Yardley
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-oklahoma-quakes-fracking-20160302-story.html
Continue reading -
Environmentalists sue three Oklahoma energy companies over earthquakes
The Oklahoma Sierra Club filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against three Oklahoma energy companies, accusing them of using saltwater disposal wells that are contributing to the state’s sharp rise in earthquake activity. Oklahoman, Oklahoma. Feb 17 2016
Continue reading -
Even in California, oil drilling waste may be spurring earthquakes
New study says waste injection well may have triggered a series of 2005 quakes in the state’s drilling hotspot and calls for more research. InsideClimate News. Feb 11 2016
Continue reading