California Natural Gas Leak Piles On To Gas Industry Troubles
The massive California natural gas leak is just the latest and most dramatic in a series of episodes that has undermined the gas industry’s “clean” image.
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Oil And Gas-Related Earthquakes Push Oklahoma Into Damage Territory
While we’re waiting for the seismicity denialists to come out of the woodwork, the US Geological Survey and the Oklahoma Geological Survey have just jointly updated the state’s earthquake status to warn that a recent, rapid increase in the state’s earthquake rate means that “the likelihood of future, damaging earthquakes … [continued]
Fracking Fingered: 100 Earthquakes In Oklahoma
The jury is still out on this one, but when Oklahoma gets more than 100 earthquakes in less than three months, attention naturally turns to fracking, the natural gas and oil drilling method that involves pumping a vast amounts of chemical brine underground, with the resulting wastewater often disposed by … [continued]
Biggest Ever Earthquake In Oklahoma Is Linked To Oil Wastewater Injection
While the emerging link between natural gas fracking and earthquakes has been grabbing a lot of attention, another problem has been bubbling up under our feet: a series of earthquakes in normally calm areas has been traced to conventional oil drilling operations. In particular, Oklahoma has been hit by a … [continued]
