USGS Finds Manmade Earthquakes Since 2001 from Oil & Gas

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USGS Finds Manmade Earthquakes Since 2001 from Oil & Gas

Shared by The Investigative Newswire on May 7, 2012 · comment

A well pad off of Walnut Road, in Tioga State Forest Pennsylvania, operated by Seneca Resources. photo: J.B.Pribanic

USGS: Recent Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade” Report Implicates Oil and Natural Gas Drilling By Dusty Horwitt and Alex Formuzis for EWG Washington, D.C. – A U.S. Geological Survey research team has linked oil and natural gas drilling operations [...]

Hydraulic Fracturing Disposal Wells Said to be Responsible for Over 1,000 Earthquakes in Arkansas

Shared by The Investigative Newswire on August 2, 2011 · comment

The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission placed a ban on fracking wastewater wells in the area yesterday. A moratorium on well activity had been in place for months as geologists investigated a possible link between fracking activity and the outbreak of more than 1,200 earthquakes that measured lower than 4.7 in magnitude.

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