Fracking versus earthquakes discussed at next Chamber luncheon
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According to the Chamber's advance news release on the meeting, 31 seismic events were recorded in northeast B.C. between April of 2009 and July of 2011, and another seven in a six day period ending on December 13th of 2011.
It confirms the event magnitudes were small, ranging from 2.2 to 3.8, but it also says a search of the areas in question, in the National Earthquake Database from 1985 to present, shows no detected seismic activity in the Horn River Basin prior to 2009.
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Thus, among other things, Heffernan is expected to examine the available evidence, to determine if there may be a linkage between these observed events and oil and gas activities in the region in the last four years.
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