New research finds “…large swath of West Texas oil patch is heaving and sinking at alarming rates.” We went out to see for ourselves. SUBSCRIBE: ru-vid.com?sub_... NEWSLETTER SIGNUP: bit.ly/VerifyLetter
Any good geologist knows, when you have a layer of salt....generally an indicator of ancient sea. Not far will be oil. Any good geologist will also know the long term effects of that drill. Reason #1 Why "oil drill leases" have an expiration date and specific clauses in their contracts.
@@kathystevetrooperblanck609 yeah let's just drive mini nukes around to protect the environment. Nuclear energy and electric cars are just as harmful and will be the same results, mining big ass holes into the ground.
I'm guessing whatever water ends in those holes is going to be very salty, too salty for fish and plants. Plus there's no river tributaries or anything to replace evaporation losses.
@@Wafflepudding In Florida they take rain runoff and created hundreds of retention ponds to keep the water from spilling back into the ocean. It creates wildlife habitats and replenishes our underground aquifers. Billions of gallons each year. Imagine all the rainwater in your state being diverted into those sinkholes instead of mixing in with raw sewage. Over time it changes the humidity levels all over the state.
When the wink sinkhole started around 1980 reports in the newspaper said there was better water in the hole than the city of Midland has for it's drinking water.
More "Global Warming" hysteria that always happens in some remote area. After all the lies we were told by the MSM I won't believe anything like this until it swallows my house and likely not even then. The media in America is a shameful establishment with plenty of egg on their face and their redemption is not on the radar with me. ...
@@MrCosmos110 crawl out from under your rock. Global warming, Climate change. Call it what you want. IT'S REAL and its also natural BUT! We are accelerating it at an alarming rate that's not natural.
LOL... Midland and Odessa's water is without a doubt the worst in the country, and all the chemicals the cities dump in trying to make it better is sad.
*You have to remember that this was all a shallow sea of water at one time. 150-175 mya. This great seaway ran from Texas all the way up to Canada. Draw a line from the Texae coast of Corpus. Christi to Houston to Dallas up to Canada and a B line to the Rockies back down to El Paso. The sediments are not only eroding from cracking but also from nature itself. Being from Texas I have seen many sinking terrain & been on many amazing fossil hunts. there is alot out there to see & do..Happy trails! Peace* ✌
*I never said it wasn't eddie. Go back & read my comment. My words were in term of what & where..on the subject of geographical changes. Shallow & deeper oceans once roamed practically everywhere throughout history due to continental shifts. it's happening in California and everywhere throughout history. California was once covered with water too. But the difference there is the pacific is reclaiming its lost waters from millions of years ago at a much faster clip. erosion processing is a common practice over land. The thrust of the mountains rising out west significantly eroded large masses of land when the energy from the uplifts of the mountains weakened the earths ocean floor where California stands today. The elevation of Bakersfield for example was once much higher but is sinking for the reasons i stated. if you go out to the foot hills outside of Bakersfield you will find large deposits of Whale & shark teeth & vertebrate. Your reply is not related directly to my comment.*
Yeah right, I also firmly believe the earth will see massive changes in the future you can't control nature you can just hope to manage it the best you can.
@@danieldavidson8149 watch the video. At 1 min and 30 seconds to 1 min 40 seconds. Lou himself says its oil and gas activites. Ill go with lou on this one.
Its known from other places in the world as well. Also relatively light to medium earthquakes. It can be observed in mining areas as well. For example the coal mining in the german Ruhrgebiet. In some places the surface sank 20m. There are pumps that have to pump all the time or else hundred thousands of houses would stand to the roofs in water. The mining companies had to put money in fonds that run the pumps and do some more regulation.
When you pump oil out of the ground for 100 years, you will get subsidence. In California, the Central Valley is sinking rapidly due to groundwater extraction.
@Don the Con man - Stop being a foolish man-child & take responsibility for your own problems instead of blaming everyone else. I'm thinking your problem lies with your username...
Not all californians are assholes just the major cities. they're a lot of good people in california it's unfortunate you'd have to move out of your home because of the assholes.. And don't think for one minute they want to move next to ignorant people like you. You act like they all came from another country.. This is the USA.. you old fuck and every citizen has a right to move where the fuck they want to.. And NO I'm not a californian. Nor am I a liberal.
Solar has been available for 70 years but these "oil and gas men" have refused to move toward sustainable energy. Look at the catastrophic irreversible damage they've caused
Sink holes are created by wash outs everywhere on our planet. As they are stating, it's a phenomena specifically in this area of Texas and not anywhere else. Here, water was pumped in to create more pressure and ended up washing away the salt layer. Otherwise, the State of Oklahoma would the largest pit in the U.S., larger than Grand Canyon.
YES! I was waiting on a comment like this. You my friend is a gentleman and a scholar. Also, judging by your profile pic, we need more people like you to tell us there’s no climate change and it’s all fake news!
hixyvsnd you have it all wrong,as I see it the Dumb Down education system in your case is working against what I said was Climate Destruction is past climate Change ,and go straight to code RED time as the northern parts of America are going underwater at high tide now ,Alaska Permafrost is melting like never before, and drying out forest are forest fires ,It’s Time to put your head between your legs and Kiss your arse good by while you can.
So the water's going somewhere - salting an aquifer or moving through underground channels to the gulf I imagine. Or just breaking down the salt & it's creating a massive cascade & settling as salty water at the bottom of those drill sites. But why all of a sudden?
Right here in Russell county Kansas there are several sinkholes due to the oil activity as a matter of fact there are several that interstate 70 drives right through
@@rambowslethal2367 Hey! :-) Most likely was a troll/shill . They try and create havoc and want to separate us!! Let us together not let them take that kind of control. No way!!! soros the slug is one of the instigators. sad state, and we will not accept their tomfoolery. IGNORE them for they are just brainless now. Feel sorrow for them.:-) take care.
Silly question! of course it’s sinking, you don’t expect it to remain stationary while big business continually removes oil from deep underground including other minerals and not replace, and not expect movement, best sinkholes you can get. And you don’t need a Phd in geological studies to work that out. PLAIN COMMON SENSE!
@Barney Fife not what im saying. The world relies on fossil fuels obviously IDIOT! That being said, the companies that did the damage need to held accountable. Just as the same for the fracking in the northeast. We all use use this stuff but we need to be more responsible about it. To Reiterate my point BARNEY IDIOT FIFE. We need to use more renewable energy. Wind, solar, geothermal. Anything and everything we can to save this planet. It's a fossil fuel it's not going to last forever.
@@seandepoppe6716 what happens when its below freezing, no wind, and cloudy. Guess what, no electricity. No electricity means people freeze to death. Anyways I don't think you realize how much steel would be needed to cover the US in windmills. Steel is made by a coal furnace. And huge ones too. And lithium (used in batteries) isn't a renewable source either.
Did you you read what i wrote? And other responses. Get a clue! @yourdumbass! A.J. douche. We need oil but also need renewable resources. And those that fuck up need to be held accountable. PERIOD. here I spelled it out for you.
@@a.j.deutsch1792 my thoughts are as such. They created the excessive demand 1 and also know what damages they are doing. Yes we use it. Im not saying to not use it. But its HI time we take advantage of renewables. To rebut your statement earlier geothermal, is one way, it may not work everywhere but it certainly does work. Hydroelectric is another, tidal, or get on a frickin bicycle and pedal your ass off with a generator attached to it you'll stay warm that way. My bike as a kid had one.
I know it would be kind of a long pipeline, but I wonder if they could cap the sinkholes by adding adding salt water from the ocean and letting it evaporate to form a new layer of salt. You'd have to have a stream of salt water coming in constantly for a few years.
@@ArisLA-wk1hg, you must be forgetting the Chinese. They are the worst. Friends from Korea are happy to be in Amerixa where the air is clean. Korean air quality isn't the best because the prevailing winds push their pollution to korea.
@@ArisLA-wk1hg absolute dunce. America has been decreasing emissions steadily for over a decade yet oil production is the highest it’s ever been. Thanks to technology we know how to keep getting cleaner. Did you know countries like India and China exist?
@@VerifyTV the weight of Downtown. Houston was built on a swamp. Thats why we are called the bayou city. Our planners did a great job. We can flood but it drains away fast.
Yah quakes have increased in that area also. It is a volcanic region and it just happens to have some kind of strong connection to the Southern California subduction zone. History recounts that when the subduction zone calms..so does west Texas. It is an indicator of the real pressure that is spreading under foot across the United States.
It's a ripple effect like a string and plates grinding.. Geographically the earth is changing shifting and stressing like an egg shell, drain the egg whites and yolk to leave the shell to crumble in on itself.. Yet if we made cars trucks and trains run off veg oil, ethanol corn moon shine, the oil companies will get very mad, losing money... Ooops
I find repentance is a daily job as well as self restraint, but not everyone has repented unfortunately. It will get worse. People will get worse in general but there are going to be those that stay in the race too. I've been writing a column for a magazine since I paused my RU-vid channel so that has been cool. I hope you are happy and doing well lawnmowermanTX. It's good to talk to you again.
Living right and good is a personal choice and we should respect one another not hurt one another.. Yet I daven we transcend to a better life.. I never married, with ocd and being judged by a hateful family of Freemasons and Lutherans I appeal to G-d's mercy.. Yet I made mistakes and got regrets to last a lifetime. Shalom y'all! 👍🖖✡🍹
