Arkansas: Emergency Order Halts Natural Gas Drilling After Fluid Injections Allegedly Caused Hundreds of Small Earthquakes

March 7th, 2011

Via: Arkansas Online:

Chesapeake Operating Inc. and Clarita Operating LLC both said before a hearing Friday in Little Rock by the state Oil and Gas Commission that they will comply with an emergency request to stop injections of used natural-gas drilling fluid in the two wells in Faulkner County.

The drillers made the announcement in a pre-meeting notice. Still, the commission voted 8-0 to approve an emergency order ceasing operations at that the two injection wells. Commission staff suspects that the wells may be linked to an outbreak of hundreds of small earthquakes in the Faulkner County area.

Research Credit: Eileen

One Response to “Arkansas: Emergency Order Halts Natural Gas Drilling After Fluid Injections Allegedly Caused Hundreds of Small Earthquakes”

  1. Eileen says:

    Lest we forget Arkansas!

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110103/ts_yblog_thelookout/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/02/dead-birds-fall-from-sky-akansas_n_803358.html

    Or the tsunami in Indionesia! I got back 13 pages of hits on this – wow. Here’s number 1.

    http://pesn.com/2005/01/25/6900062_Exxon_Tripped_Indonesian_Tsunami/

    I’d go and look for causes of Haiti’s earthquake, but, nah. I think you already know by now… drilling.

    I think our planet has HAD IT with this drilling BS. Think this is going to end any time soon?
    Right.

    Tune up the bicycles, or get one, I guess.

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