Stanford study finds wastewater disposal from oil production
triggered major earthquake in Canada, Stanford News Service March 23, 2023
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Study: oil and gas activity may have caused 2022 Alberta earthquake
A new study from Stanford University has found that wastewater injected
underground by fossil fuel companies triggered an earthquake in 2022.
Offshore technologies, Annabel Cossins-Smith
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The open access paper is:
Schultz, R., Woo, J.U., Pepin, K., Ellsworth, W.L., Zebkar, H., Segall,
P., Gu, Y.J. and Samsonov, S., 2023. Disposal from in situ bitumen
recovery induced the ML 5.6 Peace River earthquake. Geophysical
Research Letters, 50(6), p.e2023GL102940.
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Yours,
Paul H.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)