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Ohio Earthquakes Linked To Fracking, A First For Region

2014-04-11 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Geologists in Ohio have for the first time linked earthquakes in a geologic formation deep under the Appalachians to hydraulic fracturing, leading the state to issue new permit conditions Friday in certain areas that are among the nation's strictest. A state investigation of five small tremors last month in the Youngstown area, in the Appalachian foothills, found the injection of sand and water that accompanies hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the Utica Shale may have increased pressure on...

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