A seismologist has concluded that an earthquake last November in Alberta was caused by wastewater disposal produced by fracking, a controversial drilling method for gas and oil that involves injecting liquid at high pressure deep beneath the Earth.
Co-author William Ellsworth, a research professor of geophysics and co-director of the Stanford Center for Induced and Triggered Seismicity, said in a statement that “the Peace River earthquake caught our interest because it occurred in an unusual place. Multiple lines of compelling evidence point to this quake as being man-made.”
Schultz even offered an ominous prediction: “Earthquakes of similar magnitude to the Peace River event could be damaging, even deadly, if they happened in more populated areas. It is important that we understand the mechanics involved and how to avoid inducing more of these events.” “If carbon capture is going to be done at a scale that is going to combat climate change, then significant amounts of volume need to be put in the ground,” Schultz explained. “You might expect then also getting these types of earthquakes the more volume that you store.”
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