Permit given for fracking near nuclear plant

[grntuscarora]

Chesapeake Energy has a permit to frack just one mile from the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station in Shippingport. Whether that is cause for alarm, experts can’t say.
But one thing is for sure — in the midst of the Marcellus boom, drilling companies are going to keep fracking, pockmarking the earth with their mile-deep wells, blasting away at the subterranean feature that is the Marcellus shale.
As the fracking continues, does anyone, driller or geologist, know what really lies beneath the surface? Does the improbability of seismic activity as a result of fracking become more likely as more wells are drilled?
The new permit granted to Chesapeake is located 1.06 miles from FirstEnergy Corp. nuclear facility in Shippingport. According to DEP records, the permit for an unconventional well was issued to Chesapeake on Oct. 3. Drilling has not yet started.
DEP spokesperson John Poister said there are no required setbacks specifically relating to a required distance between unconventional wells and nuclear facilities, just a blanket regulation requiring a 500-foot setback from any building to an unconventional well.

more at:
http://www.heraldstandard.com/marcellus_shale/permit-given-for-fracking-near-nuclear-plant/article_72daa123-bc18-55b2-923e-2836aef991dd.html

[madaboutharry]

1. The patients are surely running the asylum.

[liberal N proud]

2. That is too close for comfort

Just across the state line from East Liverpool, Ohio - 100 miles from Cleveland.

Pittsburgh will be ground zero!

[limpyhobbler]

3. uff.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Now, that does seem a tad stupid.

Fracking can lubricate a fault. That seems like a bad idea to me.