Both Hydro-fracking and the Oil Sands were Cheney's babies. He and Bush demolished any idea that The Clean Water Act should actually be in effect to protect human health.
The views and policies of the Bush Administration are EXTREMIST positions that showed absolutely no reason why these technologies should be trusted.
No research, no nothing, simply 'Go Ahead, profits first, people never.'
But is an active fault line the real cause?
To get some answers we traveled to a state that's also had a swarm of earthquakes, Arkansas.
In the early '80s there were a number of quakes near Enola, Ark., about 60 miles north of Little Rock. Then they stopped.
Fast forward almost 30 years to 2009 and there are more earthquakes, but this time the quakes were 10 miles away. According to Scott Ausbrooks with the Arkansas Geological Survey, that makes a big difference, especially considering the history of seismic activity in the "newly active" area.
"In this particular area there were no historic earthquakes located," said Ausbrooks.
But he said there were now injection wells, that hadn't been there before....
In the early '80s there were a number of quakes near Enola, Ark., about 60 miles north of Little Rock. Then they stopped.
Fast forward almost 30 years to 2009 and there are more earthquakes, but this time the quakes were 10 miles away. According to Scott Ausbrooks with the Arkansas Geological Survey, that makes a big difference, especially considering the history of seismic activity in the "newly active" area.
"In this particular area there were no historic earthquakes located," said Ausbrooks.
But he said there were now injection wells, that hadn't been there before....
...In 2010, two more injection wells were added to the area in Arkansas that had seen a number of quakes and then hundreds of earthquakes followed over a four-month span including a 4.0 magnitude earthquake.
"That really got people's attention. They wondered what's going on and so that's when the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission said, 'OK, is there something going on?', that's when we began to look more closely at it," said Ausbrooks.
Soon after the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission issued a moratorium on four wells in the area and the quakes stopped.
"It would be an extraordinary coincidence if there wasn't some kind of causal relationship. Between the wells and the earthquakes," said Ausbrooks.
Oklahoma's expert geologist was scheduled, at one time, to speak against a tie between injection wells and the Arkansas quakes.
"There's no reason that these earthquakes look any different than the ones that occurred prior," said Austin Holland with the Oklahoma Geological Survey.
Still, looking at other states U.S. Army geologists have linked injection wells to quakes in Colorado. In Texas, university geologists have made the same link.
Just last month Ohio's governor issued a moratorium on five wells suspected of causing earthquakes there.
There are almost 200 injection wells in Lincoln County alone, that's the county where the record-breaking earthquake happened in November....
EXTREMIST TECHNOLOGIES. Not Conservative Principles, but, extremist technologies by desperate people in high office.
The Conservationists. The Human Health Advocates. The Environmentalists were all CORRECT. The power of wealth and greed nullified the voices of reason. People have died from these technologies and still others were injured and suffered personal loss with damaged properties and interrupted lives. None of that mattered and I strongly suggest the people of the USA start LISTENING to people of reason AGAIN.
The folks that came up with "Earth Day" aren't just tree huggers and they DON'T put a planet ahead of the well being of citizens. They don't and they never have. Those that deem and victimize sincerely devoted persons are willing to allow harm to people, children and this country.
Conservation, environmentalism and practices of human health such as the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act are NOT religious or superstitious, they are mired in profoundly solid principles of science that is measurable and correct.
Anyone that wants to sell out the principles of 'good practice' in providing safe employment for the nation's economy and the benefit of Wall Street don't understand what it takes to create a job, stabilize an economy and provide a sustainable future for the USA. Vote on that in November.
Expert: Wastewater well in Ohio triggered quakes (click here)
Posted: 01/02/2012
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.
Research is continuing on the now-shuttered injection well at Youngstown and seismic activity, but it might take a year for the wastewater-related rumblings in the earth to dissipate, said John Armbruster of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.
Brine wastewater dumped in wells comes from drilling operations, including the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale that has been a source of concern among environmental groups and some property owners. Injection wells have also been suspected in quakes in Arkansas, Colorado and Oklahoma, Armbruster said...
