Red Alert from Alberta’s Fracking Earthquake Warning System

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Red Alert from Alberta’s Fracking Earthquake Warning System

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The latest industry-triggered tremor near Fox Creek topped 4 in magnitude.

Andrew Nikiforuk - 25 March 2024 - The Tyee
Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more.

EXCERPT: "Fox Creek, Alberta: A nearby fracking-induced earthquake measuring 4.1 on the seismic scale caused a drilling company to halt operations on March 22. Photo via Fox Creek Community Resource Centre.

Alberta’s “traffic light system” for preventing a destructive industry-caused earthquake flashed red again near Fox Creek, home to one of the largest quakes caused by fossil fuel frackers.

On March 22, a drilling company using hydraulic fracturing triggered an earthquake large enough to make the Alberta Energy Regulator, or AER, halt its operations.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which blasts apart rock with high pressure streams of water, sand and chemicals, has made Fox Creek one of the most seismically active areas in the province.

On Friday, Cygnet Energy, a small Calgary-based firm with assets in the Duvernay formation, reported a 4.1 magnitude tremor near one of their well sites, just 35 kilometres southwest of the community of Fox Creek. . . . ."

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