Stanford study finds largest recorded Alberta earthquake likely caused by oilsands wastewater
Statistical analysis of correlation between the quakes and the underground pumping was conclusive, Schultz said.
“We had a confidence somewhere between 89 and 97 per cent just in the timing,” he said. “There is enough information to start making these kinds of links.”Schultz said the findings could have big implications for Canada’s and Alberta’s climate change plans. Both jurisdictions favour reducing the climate impact of the province’s energy industry by pumping vast amounts of waste carbon dioxide deep underground, much as wastewater is injected. So-called carbon capture and storage could have the same seismic effects as deep wastewater disposal, Schultz said.
“If carbon capture is going to be done at a scale that is going to combat climate change, then significant amounts of volume need to be put in the ground,” he said.Click to share quote on Twitter: "You might expect then also getting these types of earthquakes the more volume that you store." That doesn’t necessarily mean carbon capture and storage is a bad idea, he said, but it means a lot more seismic monitoring needs to take place around the sites to keep track of what’s happening deep in the earth.“You need to be able to see what is going on.”
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