Sentences with phrase «wastewater injection sites»

A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

The number of wastewater injection sites also seems to keep increasing, according to Abers, who notes that the permitted rate of wastewater doubled between 2004 and 2008, and has most likely increased since then.

Abers and his colleagues dug up data on the rates and volumes of liquids associated with the wastewater injection sites.

Not exact matches

Past research has shown that processes such as wastewater injection at oil drilling and fracking sites throughout the state could induce a small number of earthquakes but scientists have never been able to specifically link some of the more distant or stronger earthquakes with these sometimes faraway wastewater wells.

He has a diverse environmental, health and safety practice with particular emphasis on regulatory issues related to hazardous waste treatment, storage, transportation and disposal, site remediation, underground storage tanks, wastewater treatment and discharges, underground storage tanks, underground waste injection wells, EPCRA / SARA Title III, and OSHA.