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7 million Americans at risk of man-made earthquakes, USGS says

2016-03-29 01:09:56| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Earthquakes are a natural hazard -- except when they're man-made. The oil and gas industry has aggressively adopted the technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to shatter subsurface shale rock and liberate the oil and gas lurking there.

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USGS mobile lab coming to Hinkley; community watchdog group loses status

2016-01-14 17:22:38| Energy - Topix.net

HINKLEY >> The U.S. Geological Survey is bringing a mobile lab here to test residents' wells and quickly provide test results, officials say. The testing, which will happen later this month, for about 60 residents, is to advance a $5.4 million USGS study of Hinkley's groundwater to determine how much of Hinkley's plume of chromium-6 is occurring naturally and how much was put there by Pacific Gas & Electric Co., said John Izbicki, the USGS geologist, who is heading up the research project.

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A Response to the USGS Landfill Leachate Study

2015-12-08 08:17:00| Waste Age

Some solid waste industry experts are stepping forward to critique a recent USGS report on landfill leachate contaminants. read more

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USGS Estimates 21 Million Barrels Of Oil And 27 Billion Cubic Feet Of Gas In The Monterey Formation Of The San Joaquin Basin, California

2015-10-16 02:45:49| oilandgasonline Home Page

The Monterey Formation in the deepest parts of California’s San Joaquin Basin contains an estimated mean volumes of 21 million barrels of oil, 27 billion cubic feet of gas, and 1 million barrels of natural gas liquids, according to the first USGS assessment ofcontinuous (unconventional), technically recoverable resources in the Monterey Formation.

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