February 5, 2015
in Hydraulic fracturing
OKLAHOMA CITY — A 4.3 magnitude earthquake (click here) rattled Alfalfa County in northern Oklahoma Thursday, damaging the county courthouse but causing no injuries....
...Damage to the nearly 100-year-old courthouse, built in the early 1920s, was minimal, and employees continued working in the building, Irwin said.
“We just have extra cracks that we didn’t have before, some of the older cracks are a little bigger,” said Irwin, who was on the third floor of the three-story courthouse when the earthquake happened.
The temblor occurred just days after SandRidge Energy injection well in the same area was shut down because of a 4.1 magnitude earthquake about 7 miles east of Thursday’s quake.
Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman Matt Skinner said SandRidge’s permit for the well required that it be shut down because of the seismic activity. The well is being used to dispose of wastewater related to oil drilling....
Why go there in the first place?
The damage is already done. All that water is not going to settle down over time. Water is water. The reason hydraulic fracturing has always been a bad idea is exampled in Oklahoma and the seismic clusters in Texas.
"Everyone was told."
What is wrong with right wing politics? They don't recognize science and it's contributions to life in the USA.
