Ohio Earthquakes Caused By Drilling Wastewater Well, Experts Say

These people are also in part in business because of our energy appetite that is insatiable. We truly need to begin to understand that what we want to live and what we need to live are two different things and stop treating the Earth like a limitless environmental ATM machine. Fracking is insanity, just like tarsands.

There is already enough pressure on fault lines without us try to put more there. Ohio is on the north eastern edge of the New Madrid fault line. Major quakes on that line have been felt as far away as Charlestown, New York and Boston. This fault system is ten times as large as the San Andres Fault system. In a report filed in November 2008, The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States," further predicting "widespread and catastrophic" damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and particularly Tennessee, where a 7.7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure. The earthquake is expected to also result in many thousands of fatalities, with more than 4,000 of the fatalities expected in Memphis alone.

We are asking for trouble with this extremely dangerous gamble for fossil fuel, when the answer is right above us. Solar energy plants utilizing molton sodium will generate electricity 24/7.

According to the local papers here in NW Ohio the gov. is pushing big time for massive fracking all over the state. If that's the case then we can kiss wellwater and natural springs and streams goodbye. All this potential damage for a big ass gas company or two or three. It's like our entire state gov. is run by corp. morons determined to f%*& it all up for some jobs, bucks and revenue. Once an ecosystem and structure is screwed up have fun trying to get it back.

We need to stop these fracking morons from destroying our planet.

guess they didn't see the Josh Fox documentary : Gasland

Its like we got a spare planet laying around somewhere.

I love that humans can do something so powerful and release enough energy to make an earthquake on accident.

It's like giving a caveman the button for an atom bomb. He doesn't know what he's about to do, but he's sure going to feel it. lol

Mr. Stewart can, of course, provide us with the documentation that might help us understand the terms "safely" and "reliably"?

How arrogant and ignorant it is that the frackers think they can inject millions of gallons of water and chemicals a mile underground and not have a major impact on watertables and fault lines!

fracking has to go for so many reasons, but there is way more to the increase in EQ's than the holes we have drilled.

The data is accumulating that we are setting ourselves up for a major disaster. Germans have already started to examine the earthquake/fracking relationship in their country. The data is mounting here, with Virginia's quake damaging the Washington Monument. When will politicians get it through their heads that we have to move away from fossil fuels and to sustainable green energy?