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How Natural Is Natural Gas
How Natural Is Natural Gas
How Natural Is Natural Gas
Abandoned Woodside-Lakes Oil well head from the 1950s, believed to be still leaking.
AGL bore adjacent to the vineyard village of Broke showing significant subsidence. 2012
Wetland Loss.
In Arkansas, dozens of earthquakes near wastewater disposal sites related to the state's huge Fayetteville Shale deposit led the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission to shut down an existing disposal site and issue a moratorium on the development of new ones. Mother Jones May 2012.
Seismic Data and current well distribution [ASP] Australian School of Petroleum 2009.
Are we monitoring the earth sufficiently before, during and after drawing resources?
Adam Pascale, Head of Seismology at Engineering Solutions for Monitoring the Environment believes we should look more closely at the impacts of mining. He said: Some human activities may alter the stress distribution. When we change the stress distribution in a section of earth, we can alter the way that the earth releases its stress.