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Railroad commission moves to shut down wells linked to quakes
2015-04-25 08:20:07| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The Texas Railroad Commission said Friday that it was considering shutting down two wastewater disposal wells in North Texas' Barnett Shale after they were linked to seismic activity in the area. A study led by scientists at Southern Methodist University published earlier this week presented evidence that a series of earthquakes around the rural town of Azle in late 2013 were caused by two disposal wells operated by oil and gas companies XTO Energy - the Fort Worth subsidiary of Exxon Mobil - and Houston-based EnerVest.
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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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Emails show Big Oil pressured US scientists over fracking's link to quakes
2015-03-31 00:14:45| Electronics - Topix.net
In November 2013, Oklahoma's state seismologist, Austin Holland, got a request that made him nervous. It was from David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, which houses the Oklahoma Geological Survey where Holland works.
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...
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