Fracking, Castor Project. Castellon Earthquakes [IGEO TV]
Channel: IgeoNews
Date: 2013-10-10

The Castor Project is a submarine natural gas storage facility able to contain 1,3 Billion cubic meters of gas: 3 months consumption of the Spanish region of Valencia.
 
Already more than 400 registered earthquakes near the platform Castor, former oil well now reused for the storage of gas. Shell, the company in charge of running this well until 1989, already alerted at the time of the high danger of earthquakes that would occurre around the cavity. The plant has been closed indefinitely, and since then, earthquakes have decreased in number and intensity (Vinaròs neighbors, Benicarlo, Peniscola, Alcanar, Ulldecona, etc... continue to push for the closure of the plant is final).
  
What is "fracking"?

It's a new way to extract natural gas for there to punch and break the place chosen and slate rock layers deep underground (up to 5,000 meters below the surface). For this, pressurized water is injected mixed with sand and chemicals, some of them highly polluting, underground to extract the small bubbles of this gas impregnated in the rock.
Source: europapress y La Vanguardia.

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