Search me. At the Cornell forum somebody asked what they do with frack waste in Texas - where it is illegal to dump it on roads or in municipal water treatment plants. My response: “We pump it down disposal wells in order to induce earthquakes.” Meaning, there is no way to safely get rid of the billions of gallons of toxic radioactive frack filth. Except, of course, dump it in Idahofrackingho, where it might boost the mean IQ a notch or two.
Here’s the latest FrackQuake Swarm from Dallas Fort Worth
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For the 11th time this month, an earthquake rattles residents near Eagle Mountain Lake
This map from the USGS shows the number of quakes recorded near Eagle Mountain Lake since November 1. The orange dot is this morning’s tremor.
For the 11th time this month, folks living near Eagle Mountain Lake felt the ground move beneath their feet.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 3.3-magnitude quake rumbled ’round Azle at 1:53 Monday morning — less than a week after three tremors were reported in the vicinity, including a 3.6-magnitude quake that was the strongest recorded in North Texas in five years. According to the USGS, this morning’s was four miles west of Azle, occurred 3.1 miles beneath the surface, and could be felt from Azle to Weatherford … not to mention in Fort Worth, Boyd, Keller, Newark, Rhome and Springtown.
While the Railroad Commission of Texas hasn’t commented — or returned calls, for that matter — TCU Energy Institute Director Ken Morgan believes he knows what’s causing the quakes: the disposal wells related to natural gas drilling. There are dozens of those wells in that part of the Barnett Shale, 15 alone in Parker County.
Shake Rattle and Frack
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