Quake Risk From Fracking Seen Cut With Disclosures, U.S. Says
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U.S. energy companies should report information on waste water from hydraulic fracturing to help officials reduce the risk of earthquakes, the head of the U.S. Geological Survey said.
“We do need help from industry,” Marcia McNutt, director of the U.S. Geological Survey, said today in an interview in Washington. “There is not good public information on the amount of water being pumped, and the rate at which it’s pumped.”