Fracking has been definitively linked to earthquakes in Western Canada, a study has found. In the central U.S., between 1973 and 2008, an average of 21 earthquakes in the 3-4 range on the Richter scale occurred per year. This rose to 93 quakes per year after 2008. Studies linked the increase in earthquakes to the injection of fracking waste water deep underground.
However, in Western Canada, fracking itself has been shown to cause earthquakes. This study adds to the growing list of environmental problems connected to the practice of hydraulic fracking including the contamination of ground and surface water with carcinogens and other poisons. Finally, fracking contributes to higher carbon emissions both through burning fracking’s products and methane emissions during the fracking process.
In order for Canada to meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement, and in order for us to avoid catastrophic global warming, over 80 percent of proven fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground. A recent study of the melting Western Antarctic Ice Sheet has found that we can stop it melting and raising sea levels by an estimated six meters and flooding some of the most densely populated areas of the world. Preventing this would require us to keep over 80 percent of fossil fuels in the ground.
This is the perfect moment to effectively end fracking; the price off oil is low and fracking is an expensive way of producing oil. Many fracking operations are under a lot of financial pressure. Therefore, we have the opportunity to end the practice as they are not central to the economy in the same way they are when oil prices are high. Ask Prime Minister Trudeau to end the practice of fracking in Canada.
>>70045142
fuck Canada
>Canada
>people caring
Pick one.
It's literally just a welfare dispensary for third world shitizens.
>>70045142
Yeah but money
So?
>>70045142
Yes, end canadian fracking.
yes, good canada. set back your infrastructure so when the price goes back up you cant capitalize.
Fracking is just grinding rocks into fuel.
>>70045142
Who could have guessed that if you flood the stone with acids and chemicals, that literly desolve the stone, you're asking for earthquakes
Stupid murricanes think this is news
>>70045142
not saying you're wrong per se, but i still don't think you can say "definitively" as correlation doesn't always mean causation
>>70045142
This is reverse shitposting, this time an American is shilling for Canada.
>>70047263
This.
All this faggot anti-canadian petroleum product development is bought and paid for by shitskins and russia and faggot leftists bought it hook, line, and sinker.
>>70045142
>Definitive link
Fracking sites sans wastewater injection in other areas haven't seen earthquake effects. The link is far from definitive.
>Contamination of groundwater
Only affects a fraction of fracking operations, and is usually tied to cement casing corrosion around wells
>Burning of products and methane emissions
Flaring of light ends is entirely optional. It's done because the profit margin on them isn't considered worthwhile, so it all goes out the flare. But it is by no means a mandatory part of the process.
>Fracking is expensive
It has a higher breakeven price per barrel extracted. But that's only an issue with the oil prices being where they currently are. If you think it's going to stay that way, you're a fool.
In fact a large reason why oil prices are low is because Saudi Aramco is upping production with the intent of lowering the price to a point where American fracking can't compete, because American shale reserves are the only oil reserves in the world that can compete with the Saudi's.
Fracking has the possibility of breaking the Americas free of Saudi oil control, and even making American countries exporters of LNG. And this scares the shit out of them.
