{"id":300,"date":"2014-10-20T12:33:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=300"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:33:32","slug":"new-evidence-links-earthquakes-to-fracking-ecowatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"New Evidence Links Earthquakes to Fracking \u00bb EcoWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/10\/16\/evidence-fracking-earthquakes\/\">New Evidence Links Earthquakes to Fracking \u00bb EcoWatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">The evidence linking\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\">fracking<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/search\/?q=fracking+earthquakes\">earthquakes<\/a>\u00a0continues to pile up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">A\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.annualreviews.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1146\/annurev-environ-031113-144051\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>\u00a0by seven researchers from California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and the UK,\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking<\/em>, said \u201cUnconventional oil and natural gas extraction enabled by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing [fracking]\u00a0is driving an economic boom with consequences described from \u2018revolutionary\u2019 to \u2018disastrous.\u2019 The reality lies somewhere in between.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_347146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; background-color: #eeeeee; max-width: 610px; padding: 3px; margin: 0px;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/earthquakemap.jpg\"><span class=\"image-container wp-image-347146 size-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; max-width: 600px; max-height: 748px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-347146 size-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/earthquakemap.jpg\" alt=\"This map shows the intensity of shaking in the area of a magnitude-3.9 earthquake that struck near Youngstown, Ohio, on Dec. 31, 2011. Research has linked this earthquake to the underground injection of wastewater from fracking. Map credit: U.S. Geological Society\" width=\"600\" height=\"748\" \/><\/span><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_347146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 0.875rem; padding: 0.1875rem 0.4375rem 0.1875rem 0.4375rem; margin: 0px;\">This map shows the intensity of shaking in the area of a magnitude-3.9 earthquake that struck near Youngstown, Ohio, on Dec. 31, 2011. Research has linked this earthquake to the underground injection of wastewater from fracking.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/>Map credit: U.S. Geological Survey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">The studies findings were many, including that fracking \u201cgenerates income and, done well, can reduce air pollution and even water use compared with other fossil fuels.\u201d But it also found it can reduce investment in\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #439241; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/business\/renewables\/\">renewables<\/a>\u00a0and when done carelessly, can release toxic chemicals into the environment. It also agreed: fracking causes earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Evidence Links Earthquakes to Fracking \u00bb EcoWatch. The evidence linking\u00a0fracking\u00a0to\u00a0earthquakes\u00a0continues to pile up. A\u00a0study\u00a0by seven researchers from California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and the UK,\u00a0The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking, said \u201cUnconventional oil and natural gas extraction enabled by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing [fracking]\u00a0is driving an economic boom with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[222,331,412],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-earthquakes","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}