Last night Rachel spoke with Terrence Henry, energy and environment reporter for StateImpact Texas, about the relationship between recent, unusual earthquakes in Texas and nearby fracking waste disposal wells, and shared this map from the Houston Chronicle's Fuel Fix blog:
View Earthquakes rock North Texas in a larger map
Mr. Henry, in his article on the subject, featured a more detailed map from the new University of Texas study by seismologist Cliff Frohlich. Below, the red dots are quakes. The yellow squares and also the plus signs are wells (depending on barrels of water per month). And the green stripes are fault lines. Triangles are seismograph stations.
Hmmmm....
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Small frequent earthquakes started happening in Ventura County, California shortly after high pressure water injection began to be used to "rejuvenate" old wells.
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What will the cost of all these kinds of things be and at whose expense? What has it been in the past? The public foots the ultimate bill in some way, shape or form.
We have a big project in Sonoma county called The Geysers "is the largest complex of geothermal power plants in the world. Calpine, the largest geothermal power producer in the U.S., owns and operates 15 power plants at The Geysers with a net generating capacity of about 725 megawatts of electricity - enough to power 725,000 homes, or a city the size of San Francisco."
We also had a wastewater disposal problem so they built a giant pipeline from Santa Rosa to the Geysers northeast of Healdsburg and that wastewater is injected into the wells. Lots of small earthquakes around there!
Going to the "well", once too often.
As reported on the Howie Carr show on WRKO this afternoon:
This Is Brazen, Even For Massachusetts... $276,000.00 cost PAID BY MASS TAX PAYERS to put out notices to FUND (indirectly but purposely Elizebeth Warren's campaign efforts thur her daughter's anti conservative activist org.
STORY FIRST RUNS IN BOSTON HERALD Wednesday.
Brown blasts welfare vote group chaired by Warren’s daughter
Got that? The state of Massachusetts - facing a lawsuit by an ACORN offshoot - sent out voter registration cards to people on welfare. It costs nothing to register to vote, mind you - and I don't get a voter registration card when I pay my excise or property tax - but don't let that get in the way.
And the person responsible for the lawsuit? Why, it just happens to be the daughter of the woman running against Scott Brown for the Junior US Senator spot. Nope, no conflict of interest there. It's not like those welfare recipients are overwhelmingly Democrat-leaning or anything, right? Oh, and BTW? That ACORN offshoot group DEMOS, that's responsible?
Yeah, no bias or anything here...
BUT, the state of Mass CANNOT fund the necessary financial means to notify through the State's DMV offices to contact vehicles owners of the need to renew their driver's licenses or vehicle registrations.
BUT this noticing of welfare recipients cost $276,000, TAX PAYER DOLLARS Warren's campaing efforts are being funded on the backs of legitamate Mass Tax Payers.
Scott Brown voted against Paycheck Fairness for Women, and appears to be quite invested in the current Republican political agenda. Elizabeth Warren is a breath of fresh air, and calling forth the disenfranchised is a service to all citizens of Massachusetts. It is the marginalized citizens who have the most to lose in any political circumstance, so calling their voices forward can only serve the whole. Serving the whole is the purpose of taxes, and as a Massachusetts resident, I am proud that my tax money is being used in this manner. $276,000 is a miniscule amount for something so important.
Meanwhile 63% of Mass towns and cities have to alternate from blocks and streets which lighting services (street lights which aid in crime provention and citizen safety) are turned off (that even in winter months when children are traveling home late from after school activities) because Mass towns CANNOT afford to LIGHT their streets.
As a grandfather of five grandchildren, ALL of whom live in Mass and are subject to such terms, MY grandchildren's welfare and safety in jeopardized because Mass WASTES money on useless politically motivated (as Howie Carr said, what should be investigated for political integrity) activities which are aimed at certain voting demo graphics to enhance ONE candidate..... I find the subject and your pathetic response, appalling. Why not just hand out an extra EBT voting card when they come for their handouts? They can vote and with an extra $10.00 cash back on the voting cards buy a pack of cigarettes or "ho ho's" to eat while they watch soap operas
Does the fact that Warren is an exposed fraud, falsifying her entry records (Chroekee Indian decent) to get hired at Penn and Harvard that same "breath of fresh air". The Paycheck Fairness Act was a hoax. Tom Finneran (WRKO radio talk show host and former Speaker of the House) exposed that fraud proposed by Boxer & Co. Scott Brown was RIGHT.
You are NOT welcome to New Hampshire to cheat out of paying sales tax in Mass either, Please (note the polite expression) stay home do not shop in NH. Stay home and PAY more taxes so that the street lights can be lit 100% of the time.
85% of you (linving in border areas) travel north to cheat on your sales taxes to avoid paying them and shop NH. Not unlike that hypocrite John Kerry who to this day still docks his private yacht in RI, to escape the 500,000.00 in taxes.
Mass needs to keep their ONE good Senator, GO SCOTT BROWN
Irishpat, Conservatives complaining about liberals should be able to answer the simple question why their party is so much better.
Since we're already well versed on your stance on liberals, how about posting on all the excellent work accomplished by your conservative elected officials, (accomplished, Irishpat, not just talked about accomplishing) these past few years to make things better for your state and your nation.
Either you will have something positive to say for a change, or this will open up a long whining excuse that Democrats block all the good stuff Republicans try to do.
OT, sorry rest of you...
RE: earthquakes and methane from natural gas wells in Texas and Colorado.
Is it possible the methane that is winding up on the surface is related to the wildfires in Colorado and north Texas?
Is it possible that the methane in the wells is seeping into the land in Texas and Colorado and contributing to the wildfires those states have been fighting?
I was not surprised by the revelation that fracking was causing earth quakes in Texas. I've been telling people this for a year. Back in 1972 I took a course in seismology. Was even involved in installing the first seismograph station in n
orthern NYS. The correlation between pumping water into the ground a earthquake swarms was already common knowledge. When dams were built in the 40's water from the lakes they produced would seep under ground. The increase in seismic activity was duly noted. You can't tell me they didn't know this was going to happen now.??
Oh pluulease!!! We have had over 40 earthquakes over 3.0 over the past 24 hours here in SoCal. This is a non event. Next topic!
Yet you still live there. It amazes me how many people live where they know the big one will hit just not when.
I worked in SoCal for a time though and what got me was the people. They were the nicest folk you'd ever meet. Still to compare the usual tremors there to a rash of tremors in Texas is a bit unrealistic.
This is why my niece left Texas.They were going to start fracking in her area and being a geologist she knew better than to hang around. The company told the people who owned homes there that they would receive a stipend--all they had to do was sign an agreement. I am sure the stipend will offset the depreciation as damages occur to foundations and walls and streets and...
Fracking earthquakes in Texas holds no interest for me, since I live in Pennsylvania!
-oh, wait. . .
Pennsylvania is spared by its geology so far. it can happen here too.
Don't worry, general populus, they aren't fracking in the backyards of these nice oil executives. And the price of gas will of course come down eventually because we're drilling our own oil at home now.
//snark off//
Gas today in ND is $3.87, don'tcha know.
You are listening... and I am so thankful. Keep the investigation running! And btw - you have a great new line for the Jobs Jobs Jabortion section: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_19733022 The company needs to hold on to their tax credit which expires at the end of the year unless Congress acts.
and we all know how strongly the Republican House feels about acting on tax issues to save Jobs Jobs Jobs in America. Right?
"They" are out of their fraking minds...who cares, attitude as long as there are dollars to be made. Frak it, there is nothing stopping me attitude. They have no fraking morality.
On September 11, 2006, there was an earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Gulf_of_Mexico_earthquake). According to the Tampa Tribune, "earthquake tremors were last felt in Florida in 1952." At the time I thought, "Hmm, didn't they start drilling there very recently?" Indeed, after Congressional tussling, the Senate finally passed S.B. 3711 on August 1, 2006. On page 2 of the Congressional Research Service report (http://poe.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Offshore%20Drilling%20Report.pdf), "Congress has imposed moratoria ... since 1982."
I'm fairly sure I read there was a mysterious "explosion" in the Gulf before this earthquake, but I cannot find the article. Corroboration, however, that drilling had begun was found, in this 9/7/06 article from the International Society of Automation: http://www.isa.org/Template.cfm?Section=InTech&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=56210 and a short article on 9/8/06 (http://www.321energy.com/editorials/kirk/kirk090806.html) referring to a 9/5/06 announcement of discovering oil in the Gulf.
There's also an article about the February 2006 earthquake in the Gulf: http://thedailybite.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/gulf-of-mexico-2006-earthquake-near-bps-atlantis-site-remains-a-mystery/
As we know, BP's Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf on April 20, 2010. Now, I'm not a scientist but shouldn't we be able to find one who has been studying the correlation between deepwater drilling and nouveau earthquakes?