You all need to remember back around 2005-2010 when fracking was happening in the DFW area and earthquakes started popping up there. An area that had little to no ground disturbance before fracking. You haven't heard much about it because the fracking has either completely stopped or slowed way down.
Thus the military drills in Missouri where last great quake was 1800's that was a whopper. Fracking in Oklahoma is causing earthquakes also. Keep lubricating the mantle. Drill baby drill! MAGA!
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years.
We had pad sites everywhere, but I didn’t feel any quakes. We had ordinances that said you couldn’t be within a certain number of feet from a house, and even shorter distance from a school. We didn’t feel anything. Some homeowners who had just moved here from out of state were shocked that people drill in TX, so they developed a huge smear campaign that resulted in us being called a “cancer cluster.” The EPA came out and did studies. Water was tested. Nothing came up bad, but the “cancer cluster” term stuck to the point where others moving here did not want to purchase homes due to what they found on the internet. I don’t remember anyone saying anything about quakes until Dallas, the TV show, was rebooted, and the Ewing family had to deal with the fracking they were doing elsewhere. Before that, there was that documentary about faucet water catching fire… people were more afraid of that happening, then quakes.
He's absolutely right. There is a direct correlation with fracking and these deep water. Well injectors, causing Earthquakes. It's happening in Oklahoma where they had heavy oil operations as well.
I was going to make the same comment: these earthquakes are from fracking and they happen in Oklahoma. I don’t know if California has the same problem but they should. Because they have non-fracking related earthquakes, it is harder to prove.
I'm an Oklahoman, born and bred. And I can tell you, there were no earthquakes when I was a child and teenager. All earthquakes in OK are from fracking.
@@normanmcneal3605 Ok, smarty pants! How about restructuring the earth below and moving it around with water pressure causing seismic shifts? They are pumping the water out of the ground and placing it in areas that never had it along with toxic chemicals. If fracking was safe the rich would allow it next to their properties. Boom! Now you can go back to your drawing board.
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years.
You get what you vote for. GQP will laugh him out of the state. They could care less about his problems. It's all about deregulation, poor corporations that have been making record profits in the BILLIONS, need all the tax breaks they can get!
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years. I encourage everyone to look into it.
The excuse/laws will be on the oil companies/government side TOTALLY if they implement Project 2025...look it up...they will give you what THEY appraised the land for ...take it or leave it...eminent domain. Drill baby drill...and we WILL increase fracking...DJT
@@nancyadams9228watching this while waiting in line delivering Frac sand to well site 😂 I get paid $45 an hour plus overtime with a 70 hour work week. Easy money 💰
@@Maevelikeschampagne You know something the rest of us don't? Like a date for the "revolution"? Marxists have been wishing for that in America for a century. It would be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
I lived in and around Tulsa back in the 90s. When I lived in Glennpool we could feel quakes. Back then that area had around 50 per year. Several times it would cause cracks in the ceiling and even in the concrete foundation.
@@c.blakerockhart1128so, it could be a natural phenomenon? 😮….but, but, but fracking! It’s bad! ….and, and , and global warming. It’s doing bad stuff too, i know it’s true because I read it on the internet and then the government started putting it on TV. I think we should all drive electric cars. Yeah. THAT’S the answer. 🤦🏽♂️
i remember a company used to come to our school and give talks about oil well safety. Like not playing on the oil derricks.. they also gave lessons on fracking and sponsored a school trip for our class to go learn about oil and natural gas... this was in the late 2000s in Oklahoma. I wonder what oil company had their hands in the public education pot back then??
Railroad Commission and gas drillers are one big good old boy team. They'll never hold gas drillers accountable. They'll lie until everyone is dead and gone, then their grandchildren will continue to lie and deny. Money is powerful and makes bad people worse.
Why is a railway in charge of wells? That should be the Department of Natural Resources should be involved any time there is anything underground, especially a waste well, wtf?
Would probably be as effective as fighting City Hall. I’ve been involved in that and we were slapped down in seconds flat at a City Hall meeting an eagle Idaho. I could swear I heard the money changing hands under the tables. We were told if we got 300 signatures our area could remain at 5 acre parcels. We got 600 signatures easy. my parcel is still 5 acres but everything around it that has been developed is now down to 1.5 acres. I’m not in a subdivision and my property has gained value in a big way. So in a way it still worked out good for me, but I sure learned a lesson about fighting City Hall. It’s a waste of time and very very aggravating.
In a small town near us there was a quarry at the edge of town. Daily blasting there caused homes in the nearby area to suffer cracks in the walls and foundations. The company paid yearly for repairs and spent a lot of money buying up homes in order to mitigate the losses. It was eventually closed and moved to a new quarry several miles out of town.
To those who have no oilfield experience. The rig drills through the "water-sands", the underground aquifer, runs pipe and circulate cement to protect the water table. The franking is at least a mile deep if it's a San Andres formation or up to 10,000ft for Ellenberg formation. The fracturing is done by injecting 12lb sand, that's 12 pounds of sand/gallon of water, with intense pressure. Once the procedure is done the formation is "fractured" and proped open with the sand that's porous and let's the oil flow freely.
Fracking in West Texas takes 5 times as much wastewater as oil. What did they suppose would happen to the land after they drain it, and keep pumping brine in and out at high pressure. Do that with a straw and an icey glass of pop and watch what happens. You don't need an engineering degree to figure it out.
You have fracking confused with secondary recovery. Fracking is only used on wells that stopped producing via secondary recovery. The big crime in oil production in Texas is that they passed laws 'to protect the environment" that required oil producers to fill oil wells with cement. Now, horizontal drilling is impossible.
Whistleblower? We’ve been telling yall this would happen for over a decade, none is this is “news” this is “what scientists have been warning us about” there is no “whistle” this is specifically what he voted for
Lights behind you on a lonely road... My grandfather was a Texas State Judge in the 50's. He told Texans if you own your own oil well, you should be free to sell your oil for whatever price you choose. And he was making legislation on it. They crushed his skull and left him for dead outside. We told people it happened when his very good horse threw him into a FRESHLY plowed feild. Because the truth was dangerous to the whole family. He was in a coma for 9 months. Brain damage was massive, leg braces, paralysis. Ruined our family. I don't think anybody with an oil well doesn't know which company was responsible.
@@andypanda4756So sorry about what happened to your Grandad and his family. Big Corporations and governments dictate on what does and doesn't happen with the economy. We need God's appointed king, Jesus Christ to take charge of earth's affairs and to get rid of Satan and his demons who currently have control of this global system. Revelation 20:1-3
Similar problem (flood of earthquakes from injecting liquid waste into the ground) happened in the Denver area a half century ago due to deep water injection of toxic waste at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.
I hadn't even thought about how you file a claim for damage especially if it keeps worsening day-to-day. And we all know how helpful insurance companies are to start with.
Unfortunetly sir your property is worthless, right now here in Midland Tx seems like thats happening more frequently, but this place sooner or later is going to cave down underground
Yeah I’m out in Pecos working. I was once arguing on TH-cam with a guy in the European countryside about how some places are getting drilled to all… well you know. You look at Midland/Odessa through satellite map and all you see is little drilling pads all over the place. Heck y’all got little pads like right by restaurants and stores and houses. In really populated areas. I think there was even one at some point on one of the mall parking lots. We can’t keep going like this. We are using up all the land, it’s not good for us or the wildlife. We all need to figure out a way to use up less oil. And figure out how to do batteries for future cars without all the new minerals having to be extracted because that can’t be good either.
I worked as an analytical chemist in Abilene, TX, analyzing water from wells all over Texas and Louisiana. There are three levels of oil recovery: primary, which is gushing oil, secondary - using brine to push oil to the surface, tertiary, using walnut shells and other course materials to break up the drill stems in order to increase the flow of oil into the drill pipe stem. Tertiary recovery is only used by wildcatters who usually collect less than 100 bbls per day from several low-producing wells. Secondary recover is usually pumping saturated brine water out of the Cambrian formation, treating it with herbicides and bactericides and Sodium Hexameta Phosphate to stabilize it, and then re-injecting it back under the oil formation to float out the remaining oil after the well stops gushing. A secondary recovery oil well only produces as long as the oil in the oil-water mixture is predominate. When more water than oil is produced the production goes to tertiary recovery. Don't mock oil production. Farming is nothing more than using land to convert oil into food. If humanity were forced to use animals again for farming the food production would reduce so much than 98% of all humans would starve. Fossil fuel = food. When we eventually run out of oil hope and pray we have found a substitute that has the energy density and dispersability of fossil fuels, otherwise hundreds of millions of people will starve. Are you ready to sacrifice your life by not eating so your wife and kids can eat? Why would we even allow such a condition to be arrived at? Wind, Solar and Hydro are not fossil fuel replacements because they are not energy SOURCES, they can generate energy because fossil fuels were used in their manufacture, maintenance and repair. Wind mills have to be replaced every 25-30 years, and then they fill up landfills because it is too costly to recycle them. Ditto for solar collectors. A hail storm destroyed 4,000 solar collectors in Texas recently. Hail doesn't put coal or nuclear power plants out of commission. Dams require a large river complex and hundreds of millions of dollars to build and maintain. Eventually the dams silt up, if they don't collapse. So, in the long term, we are left with fossil fuel as our source of electrical energy. Oil is used to plow, cultivate, plant and harvest crops. Oil is used to transport the farm produce to processing plants. From the processing plants oil is used to transport processed food to grocery stores. Oil is used by consumers to drive to grocery stores. Oil is used by garbage trucks to haul waste to land fills or treatment plants. Oil is used to power potable water production. Drinking water is recycled six times in sewer sanitation plants during its travel from the snows of the mountains, down creeks, and streams and rivers to the oceans, arriving there with a salt load of 1,600ppm, which is enough to make the water taste salty.
You sound like Environmentalists expect to ban ALL oil. Of course, it's too hard. We just want to stop burning it, and breathing a strategic, finite energy source.
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years.
Apply for a grant to market and rent this area out to architects building and testing earthquake-proof buildings. Include the government, maybe the Army Corp of Engineers.
One gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds. When millions of gallons are deposited onto and into ground levels that was not subjected to that standing weight pressure,one cannot be expected to not know there will be a resulting reaction and response. The plates will be changed not only along their natural fault lines, new cracks will be created and the shaking effects of the earthquakes will exaggerate and create additional new fault lines minor to major in size. Manmade for sure and the response- effect, should be logically expected if considered at all.
Yep, getting close to magnitude 6 is the real danger point. Plus, I doubt any houses in his vicinity were built to earthquake standards. After living in California most of my 83 years, I'm certainly familiar with the problem!
@jgringo5516 Course he can , he can also shake his fist at the sky , equally effective and cheaper . His pockets aren't deep enough , he's not connected enough , and life isn't long enough for him to have a hope of squeezing a penny out of the fracking companies before he reaches the pearly gates , or ever .
I don't even live close to this area or even in Texas and can tell you its part of fracking, but of course big oil will silence all that, wont pay land owners and will continue to pay off Texan officials to keep doing what they want.
I think its worrisome because a great sea once existed right up the line of these quakes, from Texas up through Oklahoma to the Dakotas, for millions of years. This region moves with plate tectonic movements. More than the liquid itself, could there be a cause and effect between this earthquake activity and the pressure pounding that fracking and disposal wells produce? In essence, like an impact wrench does to a bolt. Whatever it is, we are obviously messing with something the we don't totally understand.
yes the Permian Basin. That is the entire reason there is oil here. And definitely, its the fracking process that is causing this. and yes I drive a gas powered vehicle with no plans for that to change and no I am not a "liberal"
Fracking or not, whatever the cause, it’s hilarious to see these posts about this issue. Yet every single one of you use oil, fossil fuels, petroleum products every day, all day, but somehow you don’t consider yourself a part of the issue. Go full solar, full wind turbine, full EV, and see how that works out. And we don’t need to mention all the issues of the caustic metals, chemicals, waste, use of other countries resources, and child labor to do it.
Thats not an excuse to allow a for-profit industry to keep doing something actively harmful when the problem is known and alternatives exist. Would you gleefully live downwind of an old-school dirty smokestack power plant
Yes indeed. Most of the towns out West would be ghost towns without the oil business. I do think the man here should get a nice buyout from the drilling company if he desires though.
Bet you are wearing shoes with synthetic rubber, and drive a fancy little Prius with tires, hoses, and interior made from petroleum, and ride a bicycle with tires made from petroleum, and...well, you get the point (maybe).
Today’s media is rife with “professionals” who could not pass a 5th grade English test. They have a college degree, yet no command of the language. No one at “CBS Texas” caught, “Investigators “hone in” on cause of quake.” To “hone” is to sharpen or improve upon. Such as to hone one’s skills, or to hone the edge of a knife. To “home,” (as a verb) is to move toward a target or point with greater and greater accuracy. As an aircraft might home in on a radio beacon or how an investigator might narrow the possible cause of an earthquake. The media amateurs of today (because I can’t in good conscience call them professionals) just prove how poor America’s education system has become. Professionals such as Walter Cronkite were never heard misusing English words in such a fashion. It seems that America continues to slip backward.
@@bigbadjohn7053 Wrong. Produced water is the correct term, and most oil wells and some wet gas wells produce water, whether the well has been frac’ed or not..
Frikin Fracking. My heart goes out to these families that are affected. Is San Angelo affected? Is there any recourse these families can take for their property damage?
Ladies and gentlemen, you can check the USGS earthquake map, and enable all US quakes 2.5 and under, to get an idea of what this looks like on the daily for yourselves. I've been watching for almost two years. It's getting worse.
The American answer to everything....Just sue them. You, people like you, and your logic and constant thoughts of suing everybody is part of what is wrong with this country. Suing them will definitely show them won't it? Filing the lawsuits only makes the lawyers richer which adds fuel to the fire creating a need for more lawyers in which they find more things to sue over.
So what are we going to do if ws shut down oil drilling? Go back to horse and buggies? Everything you own and depend on to sustain life comes from oil.
It's not the Drilling. THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years. I encourage everyone to look into it.
That’s not an excuse to keep doing something actively harmful when alternatives exist. The deep disposal wells are the problem, not petrochem energy generally.
@@jrrarglblarg9241 What are the alternatives that exist, and why do you say the entire problem is caused disposal wells, and where is the proof that this is the cause of earthquakes when earthquakes are occurring much more frequently all around the world with greater magnitude?
I'm in LA since 1990. The only earthquake that ever broke anything was the Northridge one in '94. I was about 30 miles from the epicenter, it was violent and they settled on 6.9 magnitude. Did everyone know 7.0 earthquake or bigger Federal dollars kick in.
@@ToyotaKTM I used to live there too and those are sliding faults but here in Texas and the big one, New Madrid in Missouri, are impact faults. Also, these are greatly exacerbated by fracking.
@@philliplewis3754nah… we got FEMA .. our stone chimney which was perched beyond two stories of my Grandmother’s 1906 craftsman house, toppled down onto two of our cars parked on the driveway,, and busted out the windshields (I still have the photos) plus … nevertheless, we drove out into the city that day, to check on our other property and its damage .. I will never forget, on the way back home, we stopped at a red light and I glanced over to my right and saw Ice Cube in the green Lexus right next to us (neck in neck) - I was so embarrassed 😂 .. our whole windshield was busted out and hood all dented up (I remember just looking down to my lap like .. can the light please turn green so he can drive off) - he was looking at the damage on our minivan anyhoo, when I got my first house in 1999 and started reroofing it on day 4, the first thing I said was knock the chimney down at the roof and my Grandmother was like, “you don’t want a fireplace” (that was a premium home feature, from her perspective) … I was like HECKKKK NOOO!!!! if there’s an earthquake, that thing is going to either fall into the living room or my daughter’s room (because that’s the wall it was built in between) … I was like NOPE and ABSOLUTELY NOT! so yeah, FEMA cut a check to my Grandmother, for the Northridge quake (and we were near USC)
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years.
He had a map of injection wells. Injection wells are not franking, they are the disposal of wastewater from franking and water that is discharged along with the crude. They pump it down below the local gas or crude deposit level as returning it does not require cleaning it or processing it to remove the toxic stuff. I'm near Denton and there is an IW less than a 1/2 mile from me. I don't think we've had any tremors but tanker trucks rolling by my place to get to the IW makes a rumble and shake as they destroy the asphalt and bounce through the resulting potholes.
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years.
Texas has had MANY earthquakes including Galveston. There are fault lines throughout the state including the one that created the wonder cave and Edwards Aquifer in San Marcos.
I noticed an increase running across the entire southern US for a couple of years on my earthquake app...lots of small swarms....and its continual anymore. Ive always believed fracking could lead to earthquakes at some point. It took over four billion years for the Earth to evolve to where we are now. It's extremely arrogant to think we can just change Earth's crust with no danger of consequences. If you scrore the surface of a ceramic tile or even rock...then it can be easily snapped along the score line if you add pressure to each side.
You all need to remember back around 2005-2010 when fracking was happening in the DFW area and earthquakes started popping up there. An area that had little to no ground disturbance before fracking. You haven't heard much about it because the fracking has either completely stopped or slowed way down.
Yep, same in Okieville
Thus the military drills in Missouri where last great quake was 1800's that was a whopper. Fracking in Oklahoma is causing earthquakes also. Keep lubricating the mantle. Drill baby drill! MAGA!
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up
If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years.
We had pad sites everywhere, but I didn’t feel any quakes. We had ordinances that said you couldn’t be within a certain number of feet from a house, and even shorter distance from a school. We didn’t feel anything. Some homeowners who had just moved here from out of state were shocked that people drill in TX, so they developed a huge smear campaign that resulted in us being called a “cancer cluster.” The EPA came out and did studies. Water was tested. Nothing came up bad, but the “cancer cluster” term stuck to the point where others moving here did not want to purchase homes due to what they found on the internet.
I don’t remember anyone saying anything about quakes until Dallas, the TV show, was rebooted, and the Ewing family had to deal with the fracking they were doing elsewhere. Before that, there was that documentary about faucet water catching fire… people were more afraid of that happening, then quakes.
@@dannyfrog yea everything is fine
He's absolutely right. There is a direct correlation with fracking and these deep water. Well injectors, causing Earthquakes. It's happening in Oklahoma where they had heavy oil operations as well.
I was going to make the same comment: these earthquakes are from fracking and they happen in Oklahoma. I don’t know if California has the same problem but they should. Because they have non-fracking related earthquakes, it is harder to prove.
Exactly. We had our house shook right next to downtown Tulsa.
@@merk9569 Correct.
Not to mention whatever chemicals they're injecting into the ground poisoning the ground water.
I'm an Oklahoman, born and bred. And I can tell you, there were no earthquakes when I was a child and teenager. All earthquakes in OK are from fracking.
Why does anyone fantasize that you can pump millions of gallons of water underground and not have something give?
Where do you think those million gallons of water were pumped from originally? Research it
@@normanmcneal3605 Ok, smarty pants! How about restructuring the earth below and moving it around with water pressure causing seismic shifts? They are pumping the water out of the ground and placing it in areas that never had it along with toxic chemicals. If fracking was safe the rich would allow it next to their properties. Boom! Now you can go back to your drawing board.
i doubt most think or even know about it
Tell me you don't know about completions without telling me 🤡
This has nothing to do with natural gas extraction. -Nobody
"Caused by the greed of man," he said. Nailed it.
You misspelled jungle bunnies
My family was ripped apart by people like this. The human race is not worthy of this planet. It won't be much longer.
@@JustLikeHeaven77The robots are coming.
@@mike_w-tw6jd
My comment was deleted. All I said was that these people destroyed my family. Wow!
@@JustLikeHeaven77 yt does it more and more, wish I knew what triggers it
Many said fracking would be the cause of severe environmental problems. Unfortunately, they were correct. 🇺🇸
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up
If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years.
They ALWAYS are, every time
It's always someone else's problem until it isn't.
When Profits are to be made, common sense overrides or trumps education
Vote blue
Such a shame. Work all your life for a place and this happens. I hope this man and his wife can find some peace and stable ground somewhere. 😞🙏
You get what you vote for. GQP will laugh him out of the state. They could care less about his problems. It's all about deregulation, poor corporations that have been making record profits in the BILLIONS, need all the tax breaks they can get!
Quoting Greg Abbott, "Drill baby drill".
I’m pretty sure Trump the Coward, said the same thing .
Trump says that also....
Drilling or fracking?
@@fixedit8689 Both, unfortunately
I say it too. Move to Cali….no fracking there and they have terrible earthquakes.
No one is going to buy in that area because water is going to be bad soon 😢😢😢
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up
If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years. I encourage everyone to look into it.
It's already bad.
Water is bad in many parts of Texas but it’s not talked about.
The excuse/laws will be on the oil companies/government side TOTALLY if they implement Project 2025...look it up...they will give you what THEY appraised the land for ...take it or leave it...eminent domain. Drill baby drill...and we WILL increase fracking...DJT
, "affordable Housing !"😮
The railroad commission is in charge? One dept that covers everything ground related in TX area? Dear Lord
...and we've all watched enough Westerns to know how the railroad cares about landowners.
Corrupt Commission.
The TRC election is probably more important than the gubernatorial imo
Praise His holy name, amen.
What a joke!
All of them are on the take.
Corruption is BIG business.
Sounds like a frac to me. My condolences to all who are suffering and having their properties destroyed.
Corporations are protected. Working people are thrown under the bus.
@@nancyadams9228watching this while waiting in line delivering Frac sand to well site 😂 I get paid $45 an hour plus overtime with a 70 hour work week. Easy money 💰
I hate fracking. It’s not worth the harm it does. This is happening all over Texas. Thank you for reporting this.
Privatized profits, socialized losses. It's the way of merika.
not for long
@@Maevelikeschampagne You know something the rest of us don't? Like a date for the "revolution"? Marxists have been wishing for that in America for a century. It would be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
💯 agreed...in MN
Well said!
We had them quakes in Oklahoma. Then the government stopped fracking. The quakes slowed down but they still happen.
I lived in and around Tulsa back in the 90s. When I lived in Glennpool we could feel quakes. Back then that area had around 50 per year. Several times it would cause cracks in the ceiling and even in the concrete foundation.
They didn’t stop fracking. They changed rules about disposal wells.
* those. Those quakes.
@@c.blakerockhart1128so, it could be a natural phenomenon? 😮….but, but, but fracking! It’s bad! ….and, and , and global warming. It’s doing bad stuff too, i know it’s true because I read it on the internet and then the government started putting it on TV. I think we should all drive electric cars. Yeah. THAT’S the answer. 🤦🏽♂️
i remember a company used to come to our school and give talks about oil well safety. Like not playing on the oil derricks.. they also gave lessons on fracking and sponsored a school trip for our class to go learn about oil and natural gas... this was in the late 2000s in Oklahoma. I wonder what oil company had their hands in the public education pot back then??
Railroad Commission and gas drillers are one big good old boy team. They'll never hold gas drillers accountable. They'll lie until everyone is dead and gone, then their grandchildren will continue to lie and deny. Money is powerful and makes bad people worse.
Why is a railway in charge of wells? That should be the Department of Natural Resources should be involved any time there is anything underground, especially a waste well, wtf?
and a geologist and a seismologist wouldnt hurt, consider the seismic activity.
Call them up and ask.
They destroy your home with their industry. Has anyone ever sued for damages and won? I'm guessing they won't be held accountable.
It's Texas. Of course, industry won't be held accountable.
Oh I’m sure the judges are well paid to make sure there won’t be any payouts for “unforeseen” catastrophes.
Ever heard of Erin Brockovich? I’m sure you’ve seen the Julia Roberts movie based on the REAL life of Erin.
Would probably be as effective as fighting City Hall. I’ve been involved in that and we were slapped down in seconds flat at a City Hall meeting an eagle Idaho. I could swear I heard the money changing hands under the tables. We were told if we got 300 signatures our area could remain at 5 acre parcels. We got 600 signatures easy. my parcel is still 5 acres but everything around it that has been developed is now down to 1.5 acres. I’m not in a subdivision and my property has gained value in a big way. So in a way it still worked out good for me, but I sure learned a lesson about fighting City Hall. It’s a waste of time and very very aggravating.
In a small town near us there was a quarry at the edge of town. Daily blasting there caused homes in the nearby area to suffer cracks in the walls and foundations. The company paid yearly for repairs and spent a lot of money buying up homes in order to mitigate the losses. It was eventually closed and moved to a new quarry several miles out of town.
To those who have no oilfield experience. The rig drills through the "water-sands", the underground aquifer, runs pipe and circulate cement to protect the water table. The franking is at least a mile deep if it's a San Andres formation or up to 10,000ft for Ellenberg formation. The fracturing is done by injecting 12lb sand, that's 12 pounds of sand/gallon of water, with intense pressure. Once the procedure is done the formation is "fractured" and proped open with the sand that's porous and let's the oil flow freely.
You can't tell Liberals otherwise.
@@adrianenriquez2544ooh, you owned us, i scared
@@mike_w-tw6jd 🤡
@@adrianenriquez2544 How sad that you think these home owners are liberals.
@@adrianenriquez2544 I am simply explaining what happens, how it works and the reasoning without any speculation or theory.
Fracking in West Texas takes 5 times as much wastewater as oil. What did they suppose would happen to the land after they drain it, and keep pumping brine in and out at high pressure. Do that with a straw and an icey glass of pop and watch what happens. You don't need an engineering degree to figure it out.
You have fracking confused with secondary recovery. Fracking is only used on wells that stopped producing via secondary recovery. The big crime in oil production in Texas is that they passed laws 'to protect the environment" that required oil producers to fill oil wells with cement. Now, horizontal drilling is impossible.
With his map and investigation I hope he doesn’t “ off” himself. You you know how whistleblower stories go.
Whistleblower? We’ve been telling yall this would happen for over a decade, none is this is “news” this is “what scientists have been warning us about” there is no “whistle” this is specifically what he voted for
Karen Silkwood.
Lights behind you on a lonely road...
My grandfather was a Texas State Judge in the 50's. He told Texans if you own your own oil well, you should be free to sell your oil for whatever price you choose. And he was making legislation on it. They crushed his skull and left him for dead outside. We told people it happened when his very good horse threw him into a FRESHLY plowed feild. Because the truth was dangerous to the whole family. He was in a coma for 9 months. Brain damage was massive, leg braces, paralysis. Ruined our family. I don't think anybody with an oil well doesn't know which company was responsible.
@@andypanda4756So sorry about what happened to your Grandad and his family. Big Corporations and governments dictate on what does and doesn't happen with the economy. We need God's appointed king, Jesus Christ to take charge of earth's affairs and to get rid of Satan and his demons who currently have control of this global system. Revelation 20:1-3
Similar problem (flood of earthquakes from injecting liquid waste into the ground) happened in the Denver area a half century ago due to deep water injection of toxic waste at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.
Whoever caused it should pay for damages
It’s the homeowners fault for having a house by oil wells . Hot wheels Will blame the windmills.
@@Morpheus187 Guy lived there for twenty years. Who got there first? Sounds like they were ok til recently. Company should buy them out.
Fracking killed us in Oklahoma!
Was there any recourse you could take, anyone to be held financially responsible for your property damage?
One comment on this video said y’all were doing better. That’s true?
You still alive? I have a lot friends up there, and they’re doing well. Keep your head on a swivel for those tornados.
Investigators are not being forthcoming, FACT ! The oil lease on that shaking land is called “ Yellowstone Lease “ meaning they knew
I hadn't even thought about how you file a claim for damage especially if it keeps worsening day-to-day. And we all know how helpful insurance companies are to start with.
Unfortunetly sir your property is worthless, right now here in Midland Tx seems like thats happening more frequently, but this place sooner or later is going to cave down underground
Not if he has mineral rights.
Yeah I’m out in Pecos working. I was once arguing on TH-cam with a guy in the European countryside about how some places are getting drilled to all… well you know. You look at Midland/Odessa through satellite map and all you see is little drilling pads all over the place. Heck y’all got little pads like right by restaurants and stores and houses. In really populated areas. I think there was even one at some point on one of the mall parking lots. We can’t keep going like this. We are using up all the land, it’s not good for us or the wildlife. We all need to figure out a way to use up less oil. And figure out how to do batteries for future cars without all the new minerals having to be extracted because that can’t be good either.
Abraxas Petroleum
Corporation is responsible
they catch salt water wells on fire. idk how nature can make this any clearer.
Disposal wells have a gun barrel and oil tank. Thats usually the source of any fires.
@@karatekid6026 was tongue in cheek, but thank you, i do appreciate the info. be well!
I worked as an analytical chemist in Abilene, TX, analyzing water from wells all over Texas and Louisiana. There are three levels of oil recovery: primary, which is gushing oil, secondary - using brine to push oil to the surface, tertiary, using walnut shells and other course materials to break up the drill stems in order to increase the flow of oil into the drill pipe stem.
Tertiary recovery is only used by wildcatters who usually collect less than 100 bbls per day from several low-producing wells.
Secondary recover is usually pumping saturated brine water out of the Cambrian formation, treating it with herbicides and bactericides and Sodium Hexameta Phosphate to stabilize it, and then re-injecting it back under the oil formation to float out the remaining oil after the well stops gushing.
A secondary recovery oil well only produces as long as the oil in the oil-water mixture is predominate. When more water than oil is produced the production goes to tertiary recovery.
Don't mock oil production. Farming is nothing more than using land to convert oil into food. If humanity were forced to use animals again for farming the food production would reduce so much than 98% of all humans would starve. Fossil fuel = food. When we eventually run out of oil hope and pray we have found a substitute that has the energy density and dispersability of fossil fuels, otherwise hundreds of millions of people will starve. Are you ready to sacrifice your life by not eating so your wife and kids can eat? Why would we even allow such a condition to be arrived at?
Wind, Solar and Hydro are not fossil fuel replacements because they are not energy SOURCES, they can generate energy because fossil fuels were used in their manufacture, maintenance and repair. Wind mills have to be replaced every 25-30 years, and then they fill up landfills because it is too costly to recycle them. Ditto for solar collectors. A hail storm destroyed 4,000 solar collectors in Texas recently. Hail doesn't put coal or nuclear power plants out of commission. Dams require a large river complex and hundreds of millions of dollars to build and maintain. Eventually the dams silt up, if they don't collapse.
So, in the long term, we are left with fossil fuel as our source of electrical energy. Oil is used to plow, cultivate, plant and harvest crops. Oil is used to transport the farm produce to processing plants. From the processing plants oil is used to transport processed food to grocery stores. Oil is used by consumers to drive to grocery stores. Oil is used by garbage trucks to haul waste to land fills or treatment plants. Oil is used to power potable water production. Drinking water is recycled six times in sewer sanitation plants during its travel from the snows of the mountains, down creeks, and streams and rivers to the oceans, arriving there with a salt load of 1,600ppm, which is enough to make the water taste salty.
You sound like Environmentalists expect to ban ALL oil.
Of course, it's too hard.
We just want to stop burning it, and breathing a strategic, finite energy source.
5s are a common occurrence in Japan. We had em once in awhile when I lived there in the 1990s.
Its the new land grab technique
Bingo.
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up
If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years.
Watch the new Twisters movie.. same idea just with earthquakes.
Don’t forget HAARP/DARPA can make earthquakes as well! If they want your land - oh well 🤷♀️
And Fire
Apply for a grant to market and rent this area out to architects building and testing earthquake-proof buildings. Include the government, maybe the Army Corp of Engineers.
Who will buy it. The Texas railroad!
The company responsible should have to buy all the properties affected!
They'd probably love that and start causing that to happen to anywhere they want to own.
Fracking is the worst
Guys not wrong though.
One gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds. When millions of gallons are deposited onto and into ground levels that was not subjected to that standing weight pressure,one cannot be expected to not know there will be a resulting reaction and response. The plates will be changed not only along their natural fault lines, new cracks will be created and the shaking effects of the earthquakes will exaggerate and create additional new fault lines minor to major in size.
Manmade for sure and the response- effect, should be logically expected if considered at all.
Why don’t the news organizations this person put out this clip? Tell what the real problem is there’s no faults down there so it’s gotta be fracking.
right. dont have to be a seismologist or geologist to know that. greed indeed.
Yep, getting close to magnitude 6 is the real danger point. Plus, I doubt any houses in his vicinity were built to earthquake standards. After living in California most of my 83 years, I'm certainly familiar with the problem!
All that drilling starting to catch up
Relentless greed😢
Sue the oil companies…wait…you are in Texas with no regulations…never mind, you can’t but yeah freedom
freedumb!
its coming
The man can file a lawsuit. It’s likely why he contacted this media outlet.
@jgringo5516 Course he can , he can also shake his fist at the sky , equally effective and cheaper .
His pockets aren't deep enough , he's not connected enough , and life isn't long enough for him to have a hope of squeezing a penny out of the fracking companies before he reaches the pearly gates , or ever .
Holy frack, I wonder whatever could be causing it?
I don't even live close to this area or even in Texas and can tell you its part of fracking, but of course big oil will silence all that, wont pay land owners and will continue to pay off Texan officials to keep doing what they want.
in tx and you are correct sir
Probably so. All the more reason for you to never move here.
Should sue for the destruction of property. They are destroying people's homes.
The company that’s causing this need to buy him out for FULL MARKET VALUE + 20% for PTSD…
Marvin! We sure miss you in San Antonio! Great to see you thriving where you are!
what a good man.. l wish l can help him..
Oklahoma has suffered this for years
I think its worrisome because a great sea once existed right up the line of these quakes, from Texas up through Oklahoma to the Dakotas, for millions of years. This region moves with plate tectonic movements. More than the liquid itself, could there be a cause and effect between this earthquake activity and the pressure pounding that fracking and disposal wells produce? In essence, like an impact wrench does to a bolt. Whatever it is, we are obviously messing with something the we don't totally understand.
yes the Permian Basin. That is the entire reason there is oil here. And definitely, its the fracking process that is causing this. and yes I drive a gas powered vehicle with no plans for that to change and no I am not a "liberal"
It is caused by tectonic plates rubbing 🤦♂️
Fracking or not, whatever the cause, it’s hilarious to see these posts about this issue. Yet every single one of you use oil, fossil fuels, petroleum products every day, all day, but somehow you don’t consider yourself a part of the issue. Go full solar, full wind turbine, full EV, and see how that works out. And we don’t need to mention all the issues of the caustic metals, chemicals, waste, use of other countries resources, and child labor to do it.
Thats not an excuse to allow a for-profit industry to keep doing something actively harmful when the problem is known and alternatives exist. Would you gleefully live downwind of an old-school dirty smokestack power plant
environmental destruction = profit
Spot on!
You didn't actually suggest a solution or weigh trade-offs. Rants that humans are bad don't really help to shape better future policy.
Yes indeed. Most of the towns out West would be ghost towns without the oil business. I do think the man here should get a nice buyout from the drilling company if he desires though.
You wanted that oil. Only going to get way worse
Bet you are wearing shoes with synthetic rubber, and drive a fancy little Prius with tires, hoses, and interior made from petroleum, and ride a bicycle with tires made from petroleum, and...well, you get the point (maybe).
@@gregm6894nearly everything
Okay, thanks for the heads up. I’m changing the oil in my truck right now. Still runs great.
And they wonder why GREED is a 7 deadly sin
My mother-in-law said she had a body built for sin....To bad the sin was gluttony.
My kinda man....God bless you..
This is what happens when you have fracking for 10 years and a major shift in material below ground.
Today’s media is rife with “professionals” who could not pass a 5th grade English test. They have a college degree, yet no command of the language. No one at “CBS Texas” caught, “Investigators “hone in” on cause of quake.” To “hone” is to sharpen or improve upon. Such as to hone one’s skills, or to hone the edge of a knife. To “home,” (as a verb) is to move toward a target or point with greater and greater accuracy. As an aircraft might home in on a radio beacon or how an investigator might narrow the possible cause of an earthquake. The media amateurs of today (because I can’t in good conscience call them professionals) just prove how poor America’s education system has become. Professionals such as Walter Cronkite were never heard misusing English words in such a fashion. It seems that America continues to slip backward.
Welcome to this thing called EARTH.
Well said!
huh
@@richardmesser1091 natural cycles, weather patterns, and seasons of earth
Oil/gas/water extraction & fracking cause major ground disturbances for years to come.
Sorry dude. Oil rules in Texas. People dont.
obviously but just for now
It's the fracking, it has been happening in Alberta Canada where they have determined quakes have been caused by the oil companies fracking.
Well, if any of you commenters like driving a car, we are all participating and helping these quakes to happen.
Welcome to the results of FRACKING.
Ohhh what could it be? Surely not fracking the earth apart...
Are they fracking in this area?
If so it’s probably the problem
"Saltwater" is a fracking waste product.
Fracking is everywhere in West Texas.
totally fracking. check out google earth.
@@bigbadjohn7053 Wrong. Produced water is the correct term, and most oil wells and some wet gas wells produce water, whether the well has been frac’ed or not..
Now there doing it in Colorado !!! Fight the good fight !!!!!
Frikin Fracking.
My heart goes out to these families that are affected.
Is San Angelo affected?
Is there any recourse these families can take for their property damage?
Ladies and gentlemen, you can check the USGS earthquake map, and enable all US quakes 2.5 and under, to get an idea of what this looks like on the daily for yourselves. I've been watching for almost two years. It's getting worse.
SAME!
Fracking?
its a fossil fuel extraction process. google it
What is pumping contaminated salt water into the ground doing to our groundwater?
Theoretically, the water they pump down is thousands of feet deeper than any fresh water aquifer.
Ill buy it for 330k
fracking companies need to be sued
The American answer to everything....Just sue them. You, people like you, and your logic and constant thoughts of suing everybody is part of what is wrong with this country. Suing them will definitely show them won't it? Filing the lawsuits only makes the lawyers richer which adds fuel to the fire creating a need for more lawyers in which they find more things to sue over.
*Everyone with PHD's need to stop commenting....By PHD, I mean Public Highschool Diploma.*
The the best I’ve heard on phd😂😂😂😂😂
Matthew 24
"Home in", not hone in. Hone is to sharpen or make more precise. Home is to find the center of the target.
I have never had to use this in any context but thanks lol I learned something new and it’s barely 9am.
Honing in on a target has been a phrase for all my 50 years. No one says “Home in” here.
Its called fracking, its no conspiracy because its true, fracking causes earthquakes
So what are we going to do if ws shut down oil drilling? Go back to horse and buggies? Everything you own and depend on to sustain life comes from oil.
It's not the Drilling. THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up
If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years. I encourage everyone to look into it.
That’s not an excuse to keep doing something actively harmful when alternatives exist. The deep disposal wells are the problem, not petrochem energy generally.
Isn't most of it sold to other countries that will pay more?
@@jrrarglblarg9241 What are the alternatives that exist, and why do you say the entire problem is caused disposal wells, and where is the proof that this is the cause of earthquakes when earthquakes are occurring much more frequently all around the world with greater magnitude?
Drilling for oil and fracking are causing this.
We barely even acknowledge a 5.0 quake in California. A 5.0 quake won't knock over a chair either.
I'm in LA since 1990. The only earthquake that ever broke anything was the Northridge one in '94. I was about 30 miles from the epicenter, it was violent and they settled on 6.9 magnitude. Did everyone know 7.0 earthquake or bigger Federal dollars kick in.
@@ToyotaKTM I used to live there too and those are sliding faults but here in Texas and the big one, New Madrid in Missouri, are impact faults. Also, these are greatly exacerbated by fracking.
If the epicenter is close enough it will.
@@philliplewis3754nah… we got FEMA .. our stone chimney which was perched beyond two stories of my Grandmother’s 1906 craftsman house, toppled down onto two of our cars parked on the driveway,, and busted out the windshields (I still have the photos) plus … nevertheless, we drove out into the city that day, to check on our other property and its damage .. I will never forget, on the way back home, we stopped at a red light and I glanced over to my right and saw Ice Cube in the green Lexus right next to us (neck in neck) - I was so embarrassed 😂 .. our whole windshield was busted out and hood all dented up (I remember just looking down to my lap like .. can the light please turn green so he can drive off) - he was looking at the damage on our minivan
anyhoo, when I got my first house in 1999 and started reroofing it on day 4, the first thing I said was knock the chimney down at the roof and my Grandmother was like, “you don’t want a fireplace” (that was a premium home feature, from her perspective) … I was like HECKKKK NOOO!!!! if there’s an earthquake, that thing is going to either fall into the living room or my daughter’s room (because that’s the wall it was built in between) … I was like NOPE and ABSOLUTELY NOT!
so yeah, FEMA cut a check to my Grandmother, for the Northridge quake (and we were near USC)
Love mother nature. Just love her wickedness and love for all of humanity.
The greed of man blessed by American government
Drill baby drill! FREEEEEEEEEDOM!
Homeowners need to file a class action lawsuit to have damages to their homes repaired by those who've been injecting saltwater deep into the Earth!
Sounds like West Texas will have to start building to earthquake building code. A house built correctly to earthquake code should withstand a 6.5
How close to fracking are these homes located? I'm just curious if there may be a connection 🤔
Y'all think?
there is totally a connection.
Yes! All the fracking, oil drilling, etc. has to have an effect on the groundwater & tectonic plates.
I think the oil companies should be held liable.
"Shotgun shells everywhere". Video shows 2 shells on the floor next to each other.
I was looking for this cpmment😂
You know who could afford to buy his house? Big oil. They can buy his house and help him relocate.
Right? Sounds reasonable to me. It wouldn't be the first ghost town the oil and gas industry left to rot in Texas.
why would they do that when they don't have to?
Exact thing happened in Oklahoma.
Fracking wells, bad.
At least it didn't burn down.
Short term profit for petrochemical corporations, long term destruction for everyone else.
private profit, public risk
There would be little to no jobs out there if not for the O&G.
What could it possibly FRACKING BE
It’s cracking our walls 😢😢😢
Very strange because I figured it would be in Odessa area not a hundred miles away
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up
If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years.
Remember, fracking can go a looooong way underground. You think you are safe, but you can't escape it.
the last 2 larger quakes they had out there we felt in dallas. and that's more than 100 miles away.
He had a map of injection wells. Injection wells are not franking, they are the disposal of wastewater from franking and water that is discharged along with the crude. They pump it down below the local gas or crude deposit level as returning it does not require cleaning it or processing it to remove the toxic stuff. I'm near Denton and there is an IW less than a 1/2 mile from me. I don't think we've had any tremors but tanker trucks rolling by my place to get to the IW makes a rumble and shake as they destroy the asphalt and bounce through the resulting potholes.
Abbott will continue to sit around and do nothing. Guy really doesn't stand for anything.
Abbott just roll off criticism,walks away from Texan concerns,skips around state problems,jumps for big Business.😉
THEY want you too think it's "fracking". They want people to give up their land for pennies on the Dollar so Property investors can grab it all up
If the Saudia Arabian government can make it Rain til it Floods, then our own Government can make the ground to shake as if it's an Earthquake. Scientist have been learning how to manipulate the Weather and Geological Events for Years.
When the heat turns up, the Gov will leave the country again.
Same thing happened/s in southern Colorado with the gas industry.
It is due to fracking I working in the fracking business not only that Texas never had any reportable earthquakes till after fracking in Texas.
Texas has had MANY earthquakes including Galveston. There are fault lines throughout the state including the one that created the wonder cave and Edwards Aquifer in San Marcos.
I felt that 5.1. Never knew Texas to have earthquakes. Hold the company accountable for the man made quakes.
Sorry. Maybe the oil company will buy the affected homes to shut them up.
I noticed an increase running across the entire southern US for a couple of years on my earthquake app...lots of small swarms....and its continual anymore. Ive always believed fracking could lead to earthquakes at some point. It took over four billion years for the Earth to evolve to where we are now. It's extremely arrogant to think we can just change Earth's crust with no danger of consequences.
If you scrore the surface of a ceramic tile or even rock...then it can be easily snapped along the score line if you add pressure to each side.