Some of us knew this day was coming, now it's arrived.
A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, Ohio oil and gas regulators said Friday as they announced a series of tough new regulations for drillers.
Among the new regulations: Well operators must submit more comprehensive geological data when requesting a drill site, and the chemical makeup of all drilling wastewater must be tracked electronically.
Ohio regulators, not Federal, not the
dreaded "Job-Killing" EPA, but State Regulators - which is the best kind of 10th Amendment approved Government, not "BIG" Government, has determined that a dozen Earthquakes which surprisingly occurred in Ohio and the midwests
where there are no known faults - where apparently man-made. They were the results of hydraulic fracturing.
Frack Me!
So what are regulators going to do about it? This.
– Future injection into Precambrian rock will be banned, and existing wells penetrating the formation will be plugged.
– State-of-the-art pressure and volume monitoring will be required, including automatic shut-off systems.
– Electronic tracking systems will be required that identify the makeup of all drilling wastewater fluids entering the state.
Maybe next time people see a Pro-Fracking Commercial like this one from Exxon-Mobil...
...they'll realize that they're being lied to and fed a big spoonful of frackquake bull crap.
Vyan