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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on May 12, 2012 at 6:36

Lex Luther thought that it could.

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Permalink Reply by Hopeful About Natural Gas on May 12, 2012 at 18:19

Two Dogs, you could be right.  I should ask some friend who are comic fanatics and know of every evil took used by Bad Guys in the Marvel or DC Multi-Verse!

I guarantee if fracking has not yet been in comics, it soon will be.

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on May 19, 2012 at 15:02

Hopeful, Lex was pumping water into the fault not fracking. Under his thinking this would cause an earthquake of epic magnitude that would slide the left coast into the Pacific thus causing all the desert properties Lex had bought up in Nevada to become beach front $$$$ properties.

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Permalink Reply by Max on May 19, 2012 at 15:37

What if you were standing in Canada and looking South? 

That left coast would slide into the Atlantic taking Louisiana with it.  Texas would have two beach front $$$$ properties and claim Louisiana in their offshore drilling rights.

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on May 19, 2012 at 15:50

Think it was the San Andras Fault may not have spelled that correctly. That would have left Texas and Louisiana on the high and dry but you can go back and watch the movie.

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Permalink Reply by Hopeful About Natural Gas on May 11, 2012 at 12:28

here is the KSLA story - with the news about earth quakes in the 1800's

http://www.ksla.com/story/18253128/39-earthquake-hits-east-texas

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Permalink Reply by Hopeful About Natural Gas on May 12, 2012 at 7:19

one looks up and one looks down?

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Permalink Reply by Krkyoldhag on May 12, 2012 at 1:57

wickipedia says that hydraulic fracturing was first used in 1947 tho the current technique was first used in the late 1990s in the Barnett Shale.

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Permalink Reply by Hopeful About Natural Gas on May 12, 2012 at 7:26

Keep slinging those articles Sesport!  That's a very good article on the history of fracKing (I think i will start spelling it with a capital K)

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The article mentions a 2006 conference honoring 9 Legends of FracKing - but an earlier paragraph says that attempts were made in the 1800's.  However, while the technique might have been known earlier it is not until after 2006 that what the world knows as fracKing became widespread and really contribution to the energy supply.  When did the fracKing exemption come in?  Wasn't it about 2006?

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In 2006, SPE honored nine pioneers of the hydraulic fracturing industry as Legends of Hydraulic Fracturing. Claude E. Cooke Jr., Francis E. Dollarhide, Jacques L. Elbel, C. Robert Fast, Robert R. Hannah, Larry J. Harrington, Thomas K. Perkins, Mike Prats, and H.K. van Poollen were recognized as instrumental in developing new technologies and contributing to the advancement of the field through their roles as researchers, consultants, instructors, and authors of ground-breaking journal articles.

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Permalink Reply by Spring Branch,mineral owner on May 19, 2012 at 11:46

I think George Mitchell may have been the first to use fracing in a horizontal well.

 

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Permalink Reply by DJG on May 12, 2012 at 16:03

Grew up in Southern California.   Pretty hard to get too worked up for something under a magnitude of 6.0.   

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Permalink Reply by Antiqued Rose on May 14, 2012 at 6:24

Okay, this is not my field or subject of study whatsoever. I recall an energy company conceding fracking is linked to quakes, but can't find it. I would really like to read articles that confirm or counter this argument. The following is from a quick search.

http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2012/02/08/how-fracking-drilling-a...

http://www2.seismosoc.org/FMPro?-db=Abstract_Submission_12&-sor...

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/U.S.-Causal-Link-Between-Fra...

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