Professor Todd from Oklahoma on fracking, earthquakes and lack of credible independent oversight.
I mean seriously what do you think will happen if you shatter a square mile layer of rock and fill it full of lubricant and sand. Why are fracking related earthquakes a surprise?
I honestly thought after they had caused earthquakes in lancaster they would just crawl under a rock and die.
SEVENOAKS MP Michael Fallon has defended comments about fracking, in which he suggested drilling could disrupt the home lives of (people) living in Kent and Sussex
The Mail on Sunday reported (August 4) that Mr Fallon told a private meeting it would test "how thick their rectory walls are" and "whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive".
Is this level of contempt for voters and the press acceptable?
Hubris and blind greed.
Rt on us earthquakes linked to fracking
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/okla-earthquake-swarm-fracking_n_4158134.html
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake that hit Prague, Okla., in 2011, is the biggest ever recorded in the state, and at the time, a Columbia University study concluded it is the largest ever earthquake linked to wastewater injection. The incident, which was powerful enough to be felt 800 miles away in Milwaukee, destroyed 14 homes, buckled a federal highway and left two people injured.
Pre emption how important it is.
Interesting legal concept
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_majeure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_majeure
Externality
The defendant must have nothing to do with the event's happening.
Unpredictability
If the event could be foreseen, the defendant is obligated to have prepared for it.
Being unprepared for a foreseeable event leaves the defendant culpable. This standard is very strictly applied:
CE 9 April 1962, "Chais d’Armagnac": The Conseil d'État adjudged that, since a flood had occurred 69 years before the one that caused the damage at issue, the latter flood was predictable.
Administrative tribunal of Grenoble, 19 June 1974, "Dame Bosvy": An avalanche was judged to be predictable since another had occurred around 50 years before.
Irresistibility
The consequences of the event must have been unpreventable.
Other events that are candidates for force majeure in French law are hurricanes and earthquakes. Force majeure is a cause of relief from responsibility that is applicable throughout French law.
Fracking and earthquakes
Timelapse of earthquakes in Oklahoma
Should we be fracking near yellowstone super volcano?
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake that hit Prague, Okla., in 2011, is the biggest ever recorded in the state, and at the time, a Columbia University study concluded it is the largest ever earthquake linked to wastewater injection. The incident, which was powerful enough to be felt 800 miles away in Milwaukee, destroyed 14 homes, buckled a federal highway and left two people injured.
Fracking hell
Well casing failure
https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=earthquakes+linked+to+methane+release&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=
http://arctic-news.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/methane-release-caused-by-earthquakes.html
http://arctic-news.blogspot.co.uk/p/seismic-activity.html
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/3204/20130729/earthquakes-release-massive-amounts-methane.htm
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~karin/140/articles/MethaneHydrates.pdf
http://www.livescience.com/38488-earthquakes-trigger-methane-release.html
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2006GC001326/full
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166516206001613
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653502003806
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00531-009-0487-4
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/15745/5075-preese-hall-shale-gas-fracturing-review.pdf
Trespass
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/02/fracking-cuadrilla-trespassed-private-land
Canada pipelines native resistance
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-reuters-natives-occupy-pluspetrol-oil-wells-stop-production-105119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucjsnGrgWb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucjsnGrgWb0
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/monster-earthquake-could-hit-britain-5551394?
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