Scientist Discusses Earthquakes and Injection Wells

By Susan Barnett

Hudson Valley, NY –
Yesterday we told you about a new concern with horizontal gas drilling - not only has the EPA found that well water near drilling in Wyoming is contaminated with chemicals used in the process, but deep disposal wells near the Dallas Fort Worth airport have been shut down as they appear to be the cause of a series of earthquakes in the area.
Won-Young Kim, a senior research scientist at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY runs a seismographic network in the northeast. http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/ He told Hudson Valley bureau chief Susan Barnett that scientists gathered at Cornell for a conference recently to discuss the issue.

According to the Northeast Seismology Network, there have been 74 tremors or micro earthquakes in the Northeast in the past six months. Six were just southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Seventeen of them were about thirty miles southwest of Albany.