Ohio's temblors linked to fracking

[christiefan915]

I have friends in Jersey (near Giants Stadium) who needed me to do 2 ceilings after that quake. Of course, their house is old, and still has plaster/lath.

So does mine! Maybe that explains the cracking problems.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

Please don't call her that or I will have to put you on ignore.

Does this mean that you also intend to use the IA feature on liberals that use the term "slut"?

 

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Does this mean that you also intend to use the IA feature on liberals that use the term "slut"?

No I just don't like calling women c**ts, I have no problem using it for the likes of Dantes though. In fact over here, it is pretty much only applies to males.

 

[Althea]

So does mine! Maybe that explains the cracking problems.

My friends were sitting in the living room, and a 4ft. diameter circle of plaster crashed to the floor.

Talk about a mess! Once plaster starts to fail...it's just a matter of time

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

I'm not sold on fracking. I think the dangers are downplayed. Here's a case in point.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Geologists in Ohio have for the first time linked earthquakes in a geologic formation deep under the Appalachians to hydraulic fracturing, leading the state to issue new permit conditions Friday in certain areas that are among the nation's strictest.

A state investigation of five small tremors last month in the Youngstown area, in the Appalachian foothills, found that the injection of sand and water that accompanies hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the Utica Shale may have increased pressure on a small, unknown fault, said Rick Simmers, state oil & gas chief. He called the link "probable."

While earlier studies had linked earthquakes in the same region to deep-injection wells used for disposal of fracking wastewater, this marks the first time that tremors in the region have been tied directly to fracking, Mr. Simmers said. The five seismic events in March couldn't be easily felt by people...

...A U.S. government-funded report released in 2012 found that worldwide, two instances of shaking could be attributed to actual extraction of oil and gas, as opposed to wastewater disposal in the ground -- a magnitude-2.8 quake in Oklahoma and a magnitude-2.3 quake in England. Both were in 2011.

Later, the Canadian government tied quakes in British Columbia's Horn River Basin between 2009 and 2011 to fracking. Those led to stricter regulations, which news reports indicated had little effect on the pace or volume of drilling.

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Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/local/m...o-fracking/stories/201404120097#ixzz2yhllkHva

The real question is...

If fracking takes out Ohio via an earthquake... would anyone care? Would it be a bad thing or a good one?