Penn State Eats Crow: No Link Between Fracking & Earthquakes

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eat crowIn May MDN highlighted news that Penn State University had set up a seismic monitoring system throughout Pennsylvania to track earthquakes in the Keystone State (see Penn State Claims Link Between Fracking & Earthquakes, Without Research). We pointed out at the time that researchers had jumped the gun by theorizing fracking may be the cause for some of the earthquakes. At the time they said: "We have not done enough analysis of the data to make any conclusions yet, but there is a correlation spatially and temporally between the fracking and the earthquakes." In other words, "We haven't actually done the research, but we're going to say there's a connection between fracking and earthquakes--because we feel like it." Now that they've done some of the research, those same Penn State researchers have changed their tune. What they say in a recently issued report is this: "The report found no correlation between the seismic events during that period and Marcellus Shale fracking or gas injection wells." Sounds to us like they're eating crow...

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