Examination of Possibly Induced Seismicity from Hydraulic Fracturing in the Eola Field, Garvin County, Oklahoma

Oklahoma Geological Survey / by Austin Holland http://www.ogs.ou.edu/pubsscanned/openfile/OF1_2011.pdf [From the Report]  Our analysis showed that shortly after hydraulic fracturing began small earthquakes started occurring, and more than 50 were identified, of which 43 were large enough to be located. Most of these earthquakes occurred within a 24 hour period after hydraulic fracturing operations had ceased. … Continue reading »

Projected Evolution of California’s San Francisco Bay-Delta-River System in a Century of Climate Change

PLoS ONE / by James E. Cloern, et al. (September 2011 v6 n9 pe24465+) http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024465 [From a ClimateWire article by Anne C. Mulkern, sub. req'd] [Climate change will]  transform the environment of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a system that provides water for 25 million people and irrigates $36 billion in annual … Continue reading »

Water for Energy: Future Water Needs for Electricity in the Intermountain West

Pacific Institute / by Heather Cooley, Julian Fulton and Peter H. Gleick http://www.pacinst.org/reports/water_for_energy/ [From Website] The new analysis from the Pacific Institute evaluates future water needs for different energy futures and identifies a growing risk of conflicts between electricity production and water availability in the U.S. Intermountain West. The new report also identifies strategies to … Continue reading »