Looking at seismic records near Fox Creek, in northwest Alberta, where there are six drilling sites, researchers found an intermittent set of induced earthquakes between December 2014 and March 2015, clustered
around fracking operations.
A recent article from Shale Plays Media highlights that just a year ago oil field
fracking operations used
around 2,500 tons of sand, whereas today the new
fracking techniques call for as much as 8,000 tons of sand to be pumped into a well.