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Fracking in Alberta: daily quakes and thirsty residents

2016-01-15 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: One earthquake is recorded on average each day in a western Canadian region where companies extract oil by fracking, according to statistics published by the Canadian province's energy regulatory agency. The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) said Friday that in the last year alone, there were 363 tremors in and around Fox Creek, a small town of 2,000 inhabitants located 260 kilometers (160 miles) northwest of Edmonton. Some days, seismic activity is higher, such as on September 11, 2015, when...

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