Saturday, December 31, 2011

Some Blame Hydraulic Fracturing for Earthquake Epidemic - NYTimes.com

Earlier this month the NY TImes had an interesting article about earthquakes in the Youngstown, Ohio region:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/some-blame-hydraulic-fracturing-for-earthquake-epidemic.html

Before today there had been 9 minor quakes this year.... Today's 4.3 quake is fairly large as these things go, and is surely going to add fuel to the debate.
 

1 comment:

Dano said...

Even though we are a net exporter of energy, we need to keep drilling to make America More Secure...so...um, yeah fracking is what America Needs!

Best,

D