Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Fracking Fun and Profit in Texas ... as in Nearby

Azle, TX, is only a few miles from here and there has been extensive fracking in the area ... they have also experienced about thirty earthquakes since it started.  (RT:  Texans angrily protest fracking after 30 earthquakes hit town)

“Caldwell said there are three small fault lines directly northwest of Azle,” the station reported. “He thinks it is likely that water being injected back into the earth at fracking disposal sites is leaking into these fault planes.”

Taking a wild guess, I'd say it's likely that three small faults will lead into a bigger one so what say we screw around with that.

How did it come that fracking is even necessary.  According to all the pods on the right hand of God (i.e. conservatives), we would never run out of natural gas.  It's everywhere, abundant riches, etc, etc. and, based on the raw numbers, the U.S. should have outrageous reserves in natural gas.  WIKI:  List of countries by natural gas proven reserves)

Since America is fifth in total available reserves, it doesn't seem logical that it would be worthwhile to spend all the money for fracking when it would be more profitable to get it using other, easier ways.  They're doing it so there must be some business incentive but it's not clear what it would be.  Whatever the profit, you would think they would back off when they start causing earthquakes but this isn't the first time nor the first place earthquakes have happened as a result of fracking.

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