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Quakes Rattle Confidence in Texas Energy Boom
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/quakes-rattle-confidence-texas-energy-boom-n136866
"It wasn't the semi-trucks rumbling down country roads, or the dust, or the natural gas wells that popped up around their homes that finally got to residents of Azle and Reno, Texas. It was the earthquakes.
These weren't major quakes, magnitude 3.6 was the biggest.......
"Fracking came so quickly, much more quickly than we could figure out how to do it right," says Russell Gold, author of "The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World".......
For all the tension, the issue is one that can be resolved, says Gold.
"Of all the problems with fracking, fixing earthquakes is one of the easier ones," he says, citing options like reducing injection pressure, recycling the wastewater and not placing disposal wells near fault lines.......
Gold says "the trickier issues" raised by fracking include air emissions, methane leaks and protecting aquifers from wastewater........."
Scared of an itty-bitty 3.6 quake more than what they, their children, and grandchildren will be drinking.
And so it goes.
"It wasn't the semi-trucks rumbling down country roads, or the dust, or the natural gas wells that popped up around their homes that finally got to residents of Azle and Reno, Texas. It was the earthquakes.
These weren't major quakes, magnitude 3.6 was the biggest.......
"Fracking came so quickly, much more quickly than we could figure out how to do it right," says Russell Gold, author of "The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World".......
For all the tension, the issue is one that can be resolved, says Gold.
"Of all the problems with fracking, fixing earthquakes is one of the easier ones," he says, citing options like reducing injection pressure, recycling the wastewater and not placing disposal wells near fault lines.......
Gold says "the trickier issues" raised by fracking include air emissions, methane leaks and protecting aquifers from wastewater........."
Scared of an itty-bitty 3.6 quake more than what they, their children, and grandchildren will be drinking.
And so it goes.
Screw around and keep playing "God" and see what happens.
That is all.
That is all.
Of course it is... that's why they are having such success with it.
Much, much easier when it's caused by something like this, compared to trying to remove toxins from your groundwater put there by all the improperly cased fracking wells in operation today. Tar paper shacks and mud huts in the Third World stand up to 3.6 temblors all the time, but peeps in Texas mess their drawers just because they can feel them, but ignore what's being done to their drinking water because they can't taste it. Yet.
Oh yeah... fixing earthquakes is an easy fix....
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