Friday, March 9, 2012

gas drilling caused earthquakes in Ohio

The state department of natural resources announced the tough new brine injection regulations because of the reports findings on the well in Youngstown, which it said were based on a number of coincidental circumstances.

A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost positively induced by injection of gas drilling wastewater into the earth, state regulators said Friday when they announced a series of tough new rules for drillers.part of the new regulations areWell operators must submit more comprehensive geological data when requesting a drill site, and the chemical makeup of all drilling wastewater must be tracked electronically.

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