Fracking not high risk but carbon capture is, has potential to cause large earthquakes. Seth so upset he put news about CC at end of report

Like US Senate, Seth at tipping point. Carbon Capture is high risk, fracking isn't: "If the country starts capturing the global warming gas carbon dioxide from coal power plants and injecting it underground, there is a potential for larger quakes...the council's report said. That's an issue that needs more study, it said."

6/15/12, "Report: Don't worry much about quakes and 'fracking',"AP, Seth Borenstein

• "National Research Council experts weigh in."...

"The controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas does not pose a high risk for triggering earthquakes large enough to feel...a major government science report concludes.

Even those man-made tremors large enough to be an issue are very rare, says a special report by the National Research Council. In more than 90 years of monitoring, human activity has been shown to trigger only 154 quakes, most of them moderate or small, and only 60 of them in the United States. That's compared to a global average of about 14,450 earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater every year, said the report, released Friday.

Most of those are caused by gas and oil drilling the conventional way, damming rivers, deep injections of wastewater and purposeful flooding.

Only two worldwide instances of shaking — a magnitude 2.8 tremor in Oklahoma and a 2.3 magnitude shaking in England— can be attributed to hydraulic fracturing, a specific method of extracting gas by injection of fluids sometimes called "fracking," the report said. Both were last year....

No one has been killed, nor has there been major damage, from man-made quakes in the United States, said the report by the council, which is part of the National Academy of Sciences, a private nonprofit institution that provides expert advice to the government....

If the country starts capturing the global warming gas carbon dioxide from coal power plants and injecting it underground, there is a potential for a larger quakes...the council's report said. That's an issue that needs more study, it said.

Congress and the Department of Energy requested the 240-page report." via Instapundit

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Also reported by Bloomberg, carbon capture is high risk, fracking isn't:

"Using hydraulic fracturing to get trapped gas doesn’t pose a “high risk,” the report found."

6/15/12, "Fighting Climate Change With Carbon Capture May Cause Quakes," Bloomberg, J. Efstathiou, Jr.

"Burying carbon dioxide in the ground, considered a promising way to combat climate change, may increase the risk of earthquakes, according to a report.

The process, in which liquefied carbon dioxide is stored in caverns, “may have the potential for causing significant induced seismicity,” the National Research Council said today. Injecting wastewater underground from natural-gas fracking may also trigger earthquakes, while using hydraulic fracturing to get trapped gas doesn’t pose a “high risk,” the report found."...

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8/12/2010, "Despite Costs, ‘Clean Coal’ Remains Obama Priority," DotEarth, Revkin

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Too bad billions of scarce US taxpayer dollars were diverted to "carbon capture." Just a few that came up from typing "federal grants for carbon capture" in google:

Carbon Capture & Storage Reference Plant Design - The Texas ...

1. www.texascleanenergyproject.com/news-room/

   Energy Department to stress funding for carbon capture, use and storage absent ... of Energy announced Tuesday that $450 million in federal funding has been ...
   

2. University of Kentucky gets $14.5 million federal grant | GreenSpot ...

   www.kentucky.com/2011/08/.../university-of-kentucky-gets-145.htm...

   Aug 16, 2011 – The University of Kentucky snagged a $14.5 million federal grant Monday to develop technology that can capture most of the carbon dioxide ...
   

3. Carbon Capture, Sequestration and Reduction | Bracewell ...

   m.bracewellgiuliani.com/.../carbon-capture-sequestration-and-reducti...

   Federal policy debates indicate a willingness to allocate billions of dollars for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) research and development. ... loan guarantees and the Clean Coal Power Initiative to other R&D grants, such as those from ...
   

4. ARRA Energy/Interior | Federal Funds Information for States

   www.ffis.org/452501/453764.html

   September 7, 2010: ARRA Funding Boosts Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage R&D DOE announced $575 million in ARRA funding for 22 projects that will ..."...

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