Fracking the Cascadia Subduction Zone
This seems like a bad idea, for a lot of reasons.
A new world record has been set for the largest earthquake ever triggered by fracking, after a magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck near Progress Energy work site in northern British Columbia in August 2015. The news was recently confirmed after a 3-month investigation on the matter.
The company put a hold on their hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations in after the ‘manmade’ disaster. A thorough investigation that was lately conducted by the province’s energy commission confirmed the suspicion.
After the earthquake, seismologists with Natural Resources Canada and GeoscienceBC partnered with the Oil and Gas Commission analyzed all potentially relevant data together, noting that the earthquake's epicenter was just three kilometers from Progress Energy's fracking site.
http://ahtribune.com/world/americas/348-largest-manmade-magnitude-in-northern-b-c.html
