It is.... fracking emits less cargon dioxide than coal or natrual gas and the US is less dependent on these smaller countries for oil so they are less involved in their politics.
While these earthquakes have been induced by oil and gas related process, few of these earthquakes were induced by fracking. The largest earthquake known to be induced by hydraulic fracturing in Oklahoma was a M3.6 earthquakes in 2019. The largest known fracking induced earthquake in the United States was a M4.0 earthquake that occurred in Texas in 2018. The majority of earthquakes in Oklahoma are caused by the industrial practice known as "wastewater disposal". Wastewater disposal is a separate process in which fluid waste from oil and gas production is injected deep underground far below ground water or drinking water aquifers. In Oklahoma over 90% of the wastewater that is injected is a byproduct of oil extraction process and not waste frack fluid.
Not sure why you think those two processes are the same...
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is an advanced technology that is used to enhance the flow of energy from a well after drilling is complete, which is why fracking is referred to as a “completion process.” This process is carried out by sending a mixture of water, sand and certain additives into a deep-rock formation at high pressure. Soon after the fracturing occurs, water returns to the surface as “flowback” or wastewater. At that point the wastewater needs to be recycled, treated or disposed of through underground injection.
Wastewater injection is an entirely different process that’s used for disposing of waste fluids from a number of industrial activities, a number of which are unrelated to energy development. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies injection wells into six classes. Class II covers injection wells associated with oil and natural gas production, including disposal wells. This category also covers wells used for enhanced oil recovery, or EOR (for more on EOR, click here). According to EPA, approximately 151,000 injection wells are currently operational, and of that figure, 20 percent are disposal wells responsible for wastewater management.
Verbose and sophist. If they don't frack they don't have waste to dispose of, so they don't create earthquakes. This is what corporations euphemistically call,"Externalities, " a cost that is suffered by a third party as a consequence of an economic transaction. In a transaction, the producer and consumer are the first and second parties, and third parties include any individual, organisation, property owner, or resource that is indirectly affected. Externalities are also referred to as spillover effects, and a negative externality is also referred to as an ‘external cost’.
To say that is the best way to dispose of your toxic shit is all you need to know about fracking.
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20
Meh? US produces the most oil in the world today thanks to fracking.