In BC and Texas FRACKING FRENZY results in earthquake record earthquakes
Standing in his living room, Richard Kabcts pours a brush with a thick binder filled with his two-year struggle letters to stop the wells near his household wells
Various oil and gas company announced two years ago that it will expand the hard gas gas supplies built on a hill on a hill, about one kilometer of the village of Lebeli. BC The energy regulator (violence) confirmed the permit.
Over the past 24 months, the Cabcems and his wife, Sandy St. wrote six detailed letters to the gas company, and another series of emails and letters.
But drilling is scheduled to start on February 9, in the first place of 24 wells on the website.
“We endanger the risk and they say.” Don't worry, “said Kabcems.
He is, in fact, worried. This is that in 2024, a 3 or higher earthquake shakes 3 or higher in Montni-intensity related to the hydraulic fracture and its wastewater underground warehouse. and northwesterly rabbit.
According to the Canadian natural resource monitoring, 34 recorded earthquakes have been recorded in Monty 3 or higher (M> 3.0), more than three times 10 years ago.
The ratio of oil and gas operations and excited earthquakes is well documented around the world.
3-magnitude may feel and even cause damage according to seismicity experts, depending on where they are taking place. Each step of magnitude releases the amount of energy 10 times.
Cabcems and Barron are previously arriving in earthquakes to stay away from far away than a new drilled website.
“It felt that the truck hitting the side of our house, and the motor was rotating. This deep, low scream, and things will change, remembering a number of earthquakes four years ago.
But Kabzems and Burton's Home Insurer told them in June 2023 that the earthquake insurance would be ruled out of their policy.
BC Former Senior Geographer of the Oil and Gas Commission Alan Chapman, analyzed the data, concluded that significant earthquakes would only increase in the territory of the Peace River.
Cabzems says that he has experienced an earthquake several times. “You didn't know what happened. You don't have experience.
Industry recognizes risk
Hydraulic breaking in Montni's design includes a deep vertical drill, then horizontally boring four kilometers. Then the mixture of water, sand and chemicals had to have a high pressure well, splitting the rock to release gas or oil.
If the process is blamed, it can cause seismic activities.
BC, industry has recognized the risk. But the website of the Ovintant website notes.
The company hosted consulting courses with residents of Cabcemic subdivisions, but interviewed CBC News.
The case of stronger earthquakes is not limited to the Peace River region. Both BC, in Alberta's gas and oil areas, increased the number of higher magnitude earthquakes.
“In 2021, we saw 60 earthquakes annually, and in 2024 we were up to 160 years old,” said Gale Atkinson, a consultative seismologist and former professor of the Western University of London.
For decades, he has been studying the “motivated seismicity”, which says that he makes a direct connection between the growing number of earthquakes and seismic events.
“Most of the earthquakes you receive are smaller greatness,” he said. But more earthquakes means a higher case of earthquakes, each magnitude, including the strong.
“We have more contact, the more oil and gas we take, the more earthquakes we will have. And the greater the possibility that one of those earthquakes will have an undesirable consequences, “he said. “It's a trade.”
In November 2018, construction workers, which are building a CAMP website on a peaceful river, have had to evacuate the workplace due to an earthquake measured by 4.6.
Atkinson calls on regulators to pay more attention to rising risks and create larger buffer zones.
“I think that for critical infrastructure, as basic dams (…) has a greater sense to overthrow exception zones around the high value targets,” he said.
“It's Great”
The urgency of taking a risk is intensified in BC. To feed the new, hungry pipeline in the northeastern pipeline, just starting to send natural gas to the West in Kitimat, the terminal to open the foreign markets for the first time in Canadian gas.
It is envisaged that the pipeline will wear two million cubic meters of gas a day, and this production can double the production in the next 20 years.
The invitation of US President Donald Trump offers “Drilling, Baby, Scott” that he will support more oil and gas production. His Kavutyun is a jacket for energy secretary of the Energy Secretary, Freedom Energy.
But the suburban signs of overthrown earthquakes are also obvious to the patch of Texas oil.
In a week this summer, the Texas' grappled region struck more than 60 earthquakes. CBC's Susan Ormiston goes to see the experts fingerprints in the oil industry and find more concerns in BC. In the fields of northeastern gas
In July last year, 60 shocks in a week, starting from small to smaller – shocked the area around Texas' Snyder.
On July 26, Jay Callaway was on duty as a coordinator of the city's emergency management.
“It sounded as a herd of cattle.
His first thought was as follows. “It's a big”. It was a magnitude of 5.1.
Callaway started receiving calls.
“The reports of the cracks on the walls, highways and foundations were the main damage,” he said. The emergency group had to restore the crack on the city's water line.
Earthquakes also left the Laboratory of Texas University, where Seismologist Alexandros Savvuidis could view the earthquake in real time.
Usually, he says there are several hundred earthquakes a day. Most of them are smaller than 1.5 points.
While the oil industry itself was slowly taking any connection between failure and earthquakes, Savvayis was recruited from Europe to observe the seismic events from Texas oil patch.
Now they have about 200 sensors of the state.
“When I came here in 2016, (manufacturers) were denying. It was not really the best, “said Savvayis. “I think it has been adopted by industry and society over the past five years.”
Midland's gambler
The industry node is Midland, oil warehouse rich in Permin basin. The oil study is so built in culture, it's even a new paramount + drama location SavageA number
Drilling and failure in Midland is so popular, now it happens in the city. A high-rise towers on the parking and tape center. Under the horizontal wells, the horizontal wells will be extended beyond the vault, stretching several kilometers under the city.
“This operator, they have a belief that they are just getting better wells where no one has been dug before,” said Steve Meller and Engineer of the oil industry. “He bets that this is a fertile foundation that was not touched because he was in the city.”
But Melzer recognizes the seismic activity this past summer is also a risk for industry.
FRIKE is dependent on a huge amount of water to be stored. According to Savvayis, the water warehouse generates most of the earthquakes in Texas.
“If we have another big, especially near the city center, it will look at us in a long time,” Melzer said. “I hope that we will be able to manage it, it uses more engineer instead of that water, instead he returns to the ground.”
Keeping the liquid is delicate, and the wrong pressure, depth or quantity can cause seismic activity. This is a problem that Meltsi is focused on resolving, both improving the process and looking for other use of water to reduce underground storage volumes.
“If we cannot reduce water volume (underground) formations, we will have to slow down drilling.”
Warning system
Kabccemem has officially appealed BC The failure permission in Farmington in Farmington, but he has not responded since October. Meanwhile, construction continues.
BC The energy regulator indicates such guarantees such as 35 seismic monitors in Montyz, and a “traffic light system” that warns the seismic activity regulator. At a magnitude 3 level, operators must stop failing and investigate.
Gail Atkinson says the resources are useful, but not inconsolable, because greater earthquakes are not always preceded by children.
“If you have someone that just lit lights and gives you a magnitude of 4 or 5, because its first Salvo is not to work,” he said.
“I do not blame the rules for oil and gas companies. They have a business. They have their own models of how they are at risk, “he said.
“In fact, the population to protect the regulatory bodies and the government, as well as to protect the industry as a whole of the environmental disaster, the earthquake caused in the wrong place.
