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Oklahoma's Earthquakes Are Becoming Too Frequent For The Oil and Gas Industry To Hide
2015-04-04 05:02:06| Electronics - Topix.net
Blame for the surge in earthquakes in Oklahoma over the past three years is finally being placed where it belongs , on the oil and gas industry, despite the best efforts of that industry to buy off or chill efforts to expose the dangers of disposing the wastewater byproduct of oil drilling and hydraulic fracturing into the state's porous limestone foundation. From 2010 to 2013, Oklahoma oil production jumped by two-thirds and gas production rose by more than one-sixth, according to federal figures.
David Shaff talks Randy Leonard, Mount Tabor reservoirs, earthquakes (Q&A)
2015-03-18 19:51:50| PortlandOnline
Andrew Theen in The Oregonian, March 18, 2015
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Business Briefing: Netherlands Regrets Ignoring Earthquakes at Natgas Field
2015-03-03 02:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Dutch government apologized on Monday for ignoring the risks posed by earthquakes caused by production of natural gas in the northern province of Groningen. The apology follows an official report that found the government, together with Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil, had put profits before safety in exploiting the Groningen gas field, Europes largest. Last month, the government ordered production at the Groningen field to be cut by 16 percent for the first half of 2015. The government is...
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Coping With Earthquakes Induced By Fluid Injection
2015-02-27 05:20:52| oilandgasonline Home Page
A paper published today in Science provides a case for increasing transparency and data collection to enable strategies for mitigating the effects of human-induced earthquakes caused by wastewater injection associated with oil and gas production in the United States.
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Natural gas drilling is causing earthquakes in Europe too
2015-02-19 17:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Shell and ExxonMobil, as well as the Dutch government, ignored for decades that drilling in Europes largest gas field was causing earthquakes that put human lives and property at risk. Thats the takeaway of a new report out this week from an independent group advising the Dutch government. As the natural gas beneath the Netherlands has dwindled in recent years, residents of Groningen County have experienced an increasing number of earthquakes. Last year, the area was hit with 84. The New York...
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