Fracking - where is it headed ?

[Griff]

Nice piece in the Times by a guy who went ahead with it.

[Lamplighter]

The last line:

I still don’t really know the answer.

Oh, I think he does: Fracking is not what it's cracked up to be

[Lamplighter]

Cooperstown is talking about fracking... and not just the Baseball Hall of Fame

Mother Nature Network
Baseball Hall of Fame blacklists fracking

The National Baseball Hall of Fame supports the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce's anti-fracking position.
“As a member of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce,
the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum supports the Chamber’s
recent resolution that hydrofracking for shale gas in Otsego County
could cause serious damage to the qualities that make Cooperstown
a world-renowned tourist destination and a unique community.

Bloomberg News
Cooperstown Brewer Fights N.Y. Fracking Sought by EOG Resources

The Daily Star
Trustees: Fracking may leave Cooperstown in 'permanent recession'

NY Times
Issue of drilling turns personal, nasty in village.

[Lamplighter]

Bloomberg News
Brian Swint, ©2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Gas Fracking Probably Caused Blackpool Earthquakes in U.K.

Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Two small earthquakes near Blackpool in northwest England
earlier this year were probably caused by hydraulic fracturing,
a technique of grinding underground rocks to extract natural gas.

It's "highly probable" that fracking, as the process is known,
at the Preese Hall-1 site caused the quakes, U.K.-based shale explorer
Cuadrilla Resources Ltd. said in a report published today.

The geological circumstances were "rare" and the strongest possible tremor,
of a magnitude of 3, wouldn't be a risk to safety or property on the surface, it said.
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The fracking company in this link plans ~ 400 wells in the area.

IIRC back in the 50's, liquid wastes pumped into the old wells lead to earthquakes near Denver.
About the same time, new dams and lakes in the West were shown (statistically) to be sources of earthquakes.