Trevor Allan, a senior seismologist with Geoscience Australia, said it was imperative scientists began monitoring seismic activity in the basin now, before commercial production got underway.
Seismologist Trevor Allen says he hopes real-time seismic monitoring is set up by the end of the wet season. "We really don't have any idea ahead of time whether to expect any earthquake activity in the Beetaloo Basin. "We know that from a very small number of cases from around the world that the recovery of shale gas has triggered small to moderate earthquakes through the process of hydraulic fracturing," he said.But Mr Allan said scientists were often constrained by a lack of data when attributing the cause of earthquakes in regions proximal to fracking activity.
The new monitoring stations that provide live data will be installed in the Beetaloo Basin in early 2021. The 2018 Inquiry into Hydraulic Fracturing in the Northern Territory acknowledged there was a low risk that fracking could trigger damaging earthquakes.
Respect the owner's land guys it's not hard makes us look like crap
We don't know why it happens but we'll just go ahead anyway? Really?
Whos monitoring the most important item! The ground water! Poisoning has happened in the past farms destroyed!
Fracking is dangerous to people and the environment. It puts a dangerous mix of chemicals into the soil which then makes its way into the water supply, poisoning everyone and everything. banfracking Fracking is a short sighted approach to energy production.
i cannot comprehend how this is not going serious damage ground water systems. this foolishness in the extreme.
Woohoo...let’s see how quickly we can continue to destroy our planet $
Complain, and the government will sell more gas overseas and the domestic gas will double in price.
The usual scientists over reaction, keeps them in a job I suppose. 👎 Their own inquiry in 2018 found that fracking could cause earthquakes. (The key word could) The inquiry found the likelihood of such an event would be very low and unlikely to result in significant damage. 🙅♂️
Yet Thermonuclear bomb testing in the Pacific does nothing.
seismic monitor needs to be indep like uni geologist The rusting gas wells n pipelines would abandoned to rust for decades which is flameable as they leak methane
Yes very important to measure seismic activity that can’t otherwise be detected. How else will we write salacious articles about earthquakes that are too small to be felt?
the study concludes that the overall shale business peaked in 2019 without turning a profit Since 2010, the industry as a whole in fact “registered net negative free cash flows of $300 billion, impaired more than $450 billion of invested capital, saw more than 190 bankruptcies.”
Shale gas fracking industry continues to go broke with $300 billion in losses and 190 fracking companies going bankrupt In a major new report released this week, audit, consulting and tax advisory firm Deloitte details the current state of the U.S. shale industry.
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