AER: Master Deregulator!
UK frac quake “red light” is 0.5 M
LCC/2014/0101 Roseacre Wood, Roseacre and Wharles, Fylde Appendix 9 by Lancashire Council, 2014
0.5ML is the red light threshold in the Governments traffic light system mitigation measure.
… The traffic light system requires monitoring by remote seismometers buried at the surface or at depth to undertake real time monitoring as part of the hydraulic fracturing process to inform, the duration and intensity of fluid injection during hydraulic fracturing stages to ensure that prescribed limits of induced seismicity are not exceeded – 0.5ML – the red light threshold to be used to limit induced seismicity to below the level that may be felt by humans. [Emphasis added]
UK Fracking controls infographic PDF, 775 KB, 1 page, September 9, 2013
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Traffic light monitoring system (shale gas and fracking)
Note credit: “Reproduced from original artwork by Natural Resources Canada”
Fracking traffic light by CBC News, February 20, 2015
Todd Shipman, a seismologist with the Alberta Energy Regulator, talks about a traffic light system being used to monitor seismic activity that may be related to hydraulic fracturing.
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CAPP frac quake propaganda, as good as it gets?
Hydraulic fracturing, by definition, is a form of induced seismicity – or, put differently, induced seismicity is the desired outcome of hydraulic fracturing. This seismicity is typically contained underground and rarely felt on the surface. In fact, emerging scientific consensus suggests hydraulic fracturing poses no serious earthquake risk. [Emphasis added]
Frac Quakes in Alberta by the AER (aka the oil and gas industry)
If operators observe a seismic event of 4.0 ML or greater, they must immediately cease operations and report it to the AER.
Snap above from Catalyzethis.ca