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As quakes rise, Texas still seeking answers
By Jim Fuquay
jfuquay@star-telegram.com
Lynda Stokes admits to being frustrated as she waits for Texas regulators to offer a solution to the swarm of small earthquakes that shook the area near her home in Reno in recent months.
“I see what the other states have done — they close the wells and the earthquakes go away,” said Stokes, the mayor of the Parker County community just north of Azle. “And yet Texas just turns its face.”
The Texas Railroad Commission isn’t the only state energy regulator grappling with whether wastewater disposal wells used in natural gas drilling cause earthquakes. Agencies in Colorado, Ohio, Arkansas, Oklahoma and, most recently, Kansas have had to respond to seismic events that are new to them or have become far more frequent.
And some states have concluded that there’s a direct link between the injection wells and the seismic activity.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/03/01/5613097/as-quakes-rise-texas-still-seeking.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
jfuquay@star-telegram.com
Lynda Stokes admits to being frustrated as she waits for Texas regulators to offer a solution to the swarm of small earthquakes that shook the area near her home in Reno in recent months.
“I see what the other states have done — they close the wells and the earthquakes go away,” said Stokes, the mayor of the Parker County community just north of Azle. “And yet Texas just turns its face.”
The Texas Railroad Commission isn’t the only state energy regulator grappling with whether wastewater disposal wells used in natural gas drilling cause earthquakes. Agencies in Colorado, Ohio, Arkansas, Oklahoma and, most recently, Kansas have had to respond to seismic events that are new to them or have become far more frequent.
And some states have concluded that there’s a direct link between the injection wells and the seismic activity.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/03/01/5613097/as-quakes-rise-texas-still-seeking.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
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