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The Link Between Fracking and Oklahomas Quakes Keeps Getting Stronger
2015-04-06 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Over the last few years, Oklahoma has experienced an insane uptick in earthquakes. As we reported in 2013, the count exploded from just a couple per year back in the mid-2000s to over a thousand in 2010, growing alongside a boom in the states natural gas drilling industry. There is now a heap of peer-reviewed research finding that Oklahomas earthquake swarm is directly linked to frackingnot the gas drilling itself, but a follow-up step where brackish wastewater is re-injected into disposal...
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Oklahoma's Earthquakes Are Becoming Too Frequent For The Oil and Gas Industry To Hide
2015-04-04 07:25:12| Oil & Gas - 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.
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.
Oklahoma's Daily Small Quakes Raise Risk of Big Ones, Study Says
2015-02-17 14:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Small earthquakes shaking Oklahoma and southern Kansas daily and linked to energy drilling are dramatically increasing the chance of bigger and dangerous quakes, federal research indicates. This once stable region is now just as likely to see serious damaging and potentially harmful earthquakes as the highest risk places east of the Rockies such as New Madrid, Missouri, and Charleston, South Carolina, which had major quakes in the past two centuries. Still it's a low risk, about a 1 in 2,500...
Study: Oklahoma's daily small quakes linked to energy drilling raise risk of big ones
2015-02-14 19:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Small earthquakes shaking Oklahoma and southern Kansas daily and linked to energy drilling are dramatically increasing the chance of bigger and dangerous quakes, federal research indicates. This once stable region is now just as likely to see serious damaging and potentially harmful earthquakes as the highest risk places east of the Rockies such as New Madrid, Missouri, and Charleston, South Carolina, which had major quakes in the past two centuries. Still it's a low risk, about a 1 in 2,500...