Oil recovery may have triggered Texas tremors

Now another threat from big oil, not fracking this time:


First came reports of earthquakes caused by hydraulic fracturing and the reinjection of water during oil and gas operations. Now US scientists are reporting tremors may have been caused by the injection of carbon dioxide during oil production.

The evidence centres on a sudden burst of seismic activity around an old oil field in the Permian Basin in northwest Texas. From 2006 to 2011, after more than two decades without any earthquakes, seismometers in the region registered 38 tremors, including 18 larger quakes ranging from magnitude 3 to 4.4, scientists report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1.

[link to www.nature.com]


What is it going to take for Humanity to learn that we can't rape our Earth without devastating consequences....

Last Edited by chaakin on 11/05/2013 02:57 PM