When the legislature decided to use a budget measure last week to impose a drilling moratorium in Bucks County, the provision seemed to be influenced in part by a new report issued by the U.S. Geological Survey measuring natural gas in an obscure formation called the South Newark Basin. What is the South Newark Basin? [...]
Soon after the 5.9 earthquake struck Mineral, Va. on Tuesday the internet was buzzing with speculation that fracking could have caused the rare east coast quake. It turns out that injecting large amounts of fluid deep into the earth can result in “micro-quakes.” Geologist James Coleman, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey, says fracking [...]
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