Fracking ca n’t catch a break frombad pressrecently : Some thinkit ’s touch off temblor in Texas , a state usually miss in seismic natural action .
The U.S. Geological Survey says that the Dallas area ( a fracking hub ) has experienced 40 miniskirt - quake this yr , with a 2.7 seism detected just this weekend . In January , nearby Irving was hit with 11 earthquakes in 24 hours .
The controversial fracking practice involves shove a drill into underground shale rock’n’roll , fracturing said rock by pressurize it with pumped liquid , and then slurping the cracked rock candy ’s let go gas or crude oil up a well and to the Earth’s surface .
Dallas is part a region that sit atop theBarnett Shale , a fracking hot spot that brim with 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gasoline . The USGS says that the Dallas metro only had one register seism between 1950 and 2008 — the region ’s pre - fracking day .
Meanwhile , scientist maintainthat it ’s not the fracking itself that ’s get North Texas ’s seism spike heel , but the wastewater shot well . That ’s when vegetable oil and petrol companies thrust saltwater and other fracking byproducts back into the ground , devil fault .
Even though actual rock fracturing is n’t potential run these seismal fit , wastewater injection is still part of the whole fracking appendage . Regardless , induced earthquakes in Texas is not a welcome movement .
[ CNN ]
Image : fracking in California . via Getty
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