New study detects thousands of earthquakes in B.C. Peace region, most linked to fracking | CBC News: B.C.’s Peace region is experiencing roughly 1,500 small
earthquakes a year and most of them are connected to fracking
operations, according to a new study.

Researchers set up 15
earthquake detectors around the region and recorded 5,757 tiny
earthquakes that were otherwise undetected between 2017 and 2019.

“The
vast majority of them seem to be connected with hydraulic fracking
operations,” said Alessandro Verdecchia, one of the study’s lead
researchers, during an interview on CBC’s Daybreak North. The research
was published in the Seismological Research Letters journal in July.

New study detects thousands of earthquakes in B.C. Peace region, most linked to fracking | CBC News: B.C.’s Peace region is experiencing roughly 1,500 small
earthquakes a year and most of them are connected to fracking
operations, according to a new study.Researchers set up 15
earthquake detectors around the region and recorded 5,757 tiny
earthquakes that were otherwise undetected between 2017 and 2019.“The
vast majority of them seem to be connected with hydraulic fracking
operations,” said Alessandro Verdecchia, one of the study’s lead
researchers, during an interview on CBC’s Daybreak North. The research
was published in the Seismological Research Letters journal in July.Read More

Alberta, Ottawa sign deal that reduces oilsands environmental monitoring | CBC News: Bill Donahue, a former senior civil servant with Alberta’s science and monitoring programs, said leaving the Athabasca River unmonitored is “crazy.”

“We’ve got one of the biggest industrial developments — the primary problems of which are contamination of the environment and consumption of water — and there’s no downstream monitoring.”

Alberta, Ottawa sign deal that reduces oilsands environmental monitoring | CBC News: Bill Donahue, a former senior civil servant with Alberta’s science and monitoring programs, said leaving the Athabasca River unmonitored is “crazy.”“We’ve got one of the biggest industrial developments — the primary problems of which are contamination of the environment and consumption of water — and there’s no downstream monitoring.”Read More