'Frack U!': Fracking Near the Texas Border Has Northern Mexico Trembling Ioan Grillo - Global Post
go to original May 1, 2014

'Frack U., Mexico!' is a parody video on natural gas fracksploitation (Narco News TV)

MEXICO CITY — Tremors that shook the small town of Ramones in northeast Mexico in October were a nasty surprise to residents, including many sorghum and cattle farmers, because the area of the country had little history of earthquakes.

But they weren’t a freak occurrence. The vibrations grew more frequent into this spring, cracking the walls of some of the cinder block farmhouses. Between January and mid-April, there were a record 48 tremors across the state of Nuevo Leon, where Ramones is, compared with two in the same period last year, according to Mexico’s National Seismological Service.

When local geologists mapped the tremors and looked for causes, they quickly pointed to one of Mexico’s pioneer shale gas wells right next to the town. The well uses the techniques of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, which injects a high-pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals into rocks to collect gas or oil.

“The one thing that has changed is the introduction of fracking,” said Ruperto De La Garza, director of the environmental impact consultancy Gestoria Ambiental y de Riesgos. “There is no other explanation.”

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