More Research and Data Needed on Induced Earthquakes from Oil and Gas Operations
In the early evening on March 27, 1964 a magnitude 9.2 earthquake struck beneath Alaska’s Prince William Sound, 75 miles east of Anchorage. The ground shook...
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In the early evening on March 27, 1964 a magnitude 9.2 earthquake struck beneath Alaska’s Prince William Sound, 75 miles east of Anchorage. The ground shook...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released final permitting guidance for wells that will be hydraulically fractured with diesel fuel. The guidance...
A few years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would conduct the first ever comprehensive study of the risks to drinking water from...
A paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes that a series of earthquakes in Texas may have been triggered by...
A New Mexico oil well owned by Parko Oil LLC recently experienced a blowout, resulting in a spill of more than 8,400 gallons of fracturing fluid, oil, and...
The US is in the midst of an oil boom, due in large part to advances in and the expanded use of hydraulic fracturing. This technology has allowed drillers to...
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